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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.


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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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...

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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).

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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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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