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Colorado company offers banana coffins

Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. Ecoffins USA, based in Montrose, Colo., is selling caskets made of banana sheaves.

Gates orders review of ban on photos of coffins

Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review Tuesday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dead, signaling he was open to overturning the policy to better honor fallen soldiers.

Obama reviewing coffin photo ban

President Barack Obama says his administration is reviewing a policy that bans the media from photographing flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers.

Dying to support animal rights? Try a PETA coffin

For animal rights activists, sticking up for furry or feathered critters is a way of life. Now it can be a way of death, too.

Dead Crows Scare Away Living Crows

Dead crows make good scarecrows. It's a method Cedar Rapids park officials say works wonders in their "crow coffin" program, which places dead crows on trees to detract thousands of living crows from perching.

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Why are there 500,000 plastic coffins in the middle of Georgia..?
Source: www.dailypaul.com

Apparently someone thinks we need to have half a million coffins in Georgia..I suppose just in case "something happens"

Obama to meet plane carrying fallen soldiers in Afghanistan - CNN.com
Source: CNN

The flag-draped coffins of at least 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan are scheduled to arrive at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware early Thursday, government and military officials said.

Rival coffin-makers fight to the death over who invented idea of scantily clad models in casket calendar
Source: The Daily Star

Italian makers Cofanifunebri launched a raunchy calender this month claiming to be the first in the world with the dust to bust idea.
 
 But Polish casket experts Lindner have branded them grave robbers and say them came up with the calender idea years ago.


Cigarettes smuggled inside coffins
Source: romaniantimes.at

Nearly 2,000 cigarette packs have been smuggled inside coffins, the customs police in Brasov have discovered.

Dead newborns found in house after tip-off
Source: Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

The bodies of three newborn babies were found when police were tipped off following a drunken row at a sexy lingerie party, it was claimed yesterday.

Planning Checklists
Source: pandemicflu.gov/plan/checklists

Every American citizen should read any and all information related to the swine flu pandemic and the swine flu as well as what the government plans are for the American people and the swine flu.

Ovine inspiration for wool coffin
Source: BBC News

A West Yorkshire firm best known for making military uniforms has launched a range of woollen coffins. Pudsey-based textile firm Hainsworth said it had used 17th Century burial methods as inspiration for the woollen coffins and caskets.

Oversized coffins complicate cremation
Source: thelocal.se

Swedes are getting larger and this is starting to cause problems post-mortem as coffins are proving too large to fit into cremation ovens.

You'll die laughing
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

IT'S your funeral – so why not pimp your final ride with a customised COFFIN to provide a bit of mourning glory?

Austrian gets world record for 707,335 coffins
Source: Yahoo! News

SALZBURG, Austria – An Austrian carpenter has found a macabre way of getting into the Guinness Book of Records: Over a 30-year career, he's built 707,335 coffins.

There are N(w)O FEMA Camps !

Dont' be afraid my good people...there are N(w)O FEMA Concentration Camps associated with the NWO (New World Order) across the USA waiting for your arrival. This document ,Army Regulation 210–35,Installations Civilian Inmate Labor Program..doesnot exist...

Police Say Landlord Murdered Tenant, Kept Coffin in Living Room of Boarding House
Source: kyw1060.com

Excerpt: Philadelphia police have a man in custody in connection with a bizarre murder in which the victim was found in a makeshift coffin in the living room of a boarding home (above).

Coffin ban prevents ingenuous view of war
Source: The Daily Collegian Online

I've never actually seen war in person. I've never been in combat and I've never had to deal with the grief of losing a loved one in battle. Yet because my country is at war, I am involved.

Americans should see the 'high cost' of war
Source: MiamiHerald.com

Maybe now we'll see what we have not been allowed.

The Green Hereafter: How to leave an environmentally friendly corpse.
Source: Slate

The embalming fluid used to keep corpses looking perky is another ecological bête noire. More than 800,000 gallons of the stuff are interred in Mother Earth annually, most of it containing carcinogenic formaldehyde.

Honouring A Record of Sacrifice
Source: The New York Times

Nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Yet the photographic record documents only a tiny fraction of those who have given their lives for their country.

Hezbollah gives coffins to Israel in prisoner swap
Source: JPost.com

The IDF positively identified the bodies of reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser Wednesday afternoon, setting the stage for continuing the exchange deal between Israel and Hizbullah.

Hotelier hopes to serve up Maggie's spirit
Source: pressandjournal.co.uk

A NORTH-EAST legend could be laid to rest within weeks, with a local hotelier determined to discover if a walled-up vault in his cellar contains two coffins.

Choose your designer coffin ...
Source: BBC News

There's nothing cheerful about a coffin - until you cover it with colourful pictures. The idea of decorating caskets is helping some people come to terms with that only sombre certainty we all have in life. When Mary Tomes dies, she doesn't want a plain wooden box.

Nefertiti's Eyes: Did the queen's distinctive feature become a symbol of Egyptian royalty?
Source: archaeology.org

All eyes were on the Valley of the Kings the morning of February 5, 2006, when our expedition first looked into the chamber now known as KV63, the first tomb found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings since that of Tutankhamun (KV62) in 1922.

Bride and Gloom. A wedding, Goth style.
Source: the Mail online

The bride was smiling and the groom looked a picture of happiness. But while this black wedding was a joyous occasion the two newylweds involved have certainly taken the phrase for better or worse to a whole new level.

Eco-friendly coffins breach emission rule
Source: Stuff.co.nz

Waitakere residents keen to help save the planet after they have left it are being stymied by a ban on cremating eco-friendly cardboard coffins.

Surprise Egypt Tombs Yield Ornate Coffins, Dog Mummies
Source: National Geographic

Steven Stanek in Cairo, Egypt for National Geographic News January 30, 2008 Four ancient tombs containing well-preserved mummies, ornate painted coffins, and mummified dogs have been unearthed in El Faiyum, an oasis about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Cairo

Femme Fatales In Italian Undertaker's Sexy Coffin Calendar
Source: Sky.com

Glamour models are helping to sell coffins in an Italian funeral parlour's raunchy calendar.

Archaeologists unearth treasure from 2,500-year-old tomb
Source: hindu.com

Beijing, July. 1 (PTI): Chinese archaeologists excavating a 2,500-year-old tomb in east China's Jiangxi Province have discovered a well-preserved body, many pieces of bronze, gold, silver items and porcelain and jade from one of the 47 coffins discovered.

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