“We want to ensure that we honor the women and men who served their country and, in many cases, gave the ultimate sacrifice for this nation.”
Filed under: Cemeteries, Death Care News on August 10th, 2010 | No Comments »
Over the years, PLANET has contributed more than $2 million to this national landmark.
Filed under: Cemeteries, Death Care News, Deathcare Careers on July 15th, 2010 | No Comments »
A failure to automate records reportedly led to the mis-identification of remains. More than 300,000 veterans have been interred at Arlington National Cemetery from the Civil War through the current Global War on Terrorism.
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Founded in 1838, this cemetery is home to almost 600,000 souls.
Filed under: Cemeteries, Death Care News on June 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Far fewer people than previously thought are inclined to preplan their funerals.
Filed under: Cemeteries, Death & Dying, Death Care News on May 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
Funds to help preserve memorials for future generations.
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Visit the cemetery that houses Washington Irving, author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
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In the first blog entry about Bahamian burials, you may have learned that there was a distinction among social classes and between races in life as well as in death in the Bahamas. In the second article, you may have witnessed how both Europeans and Africans influenced each other in the types of memorials reserved for the dead and the designation of a burial as permanent or transient. This article, the last in the series, shows how class defined the Bahamian burial; however, cultural influences also shaped the Bahamian burial scene.
Filed under: About Tombstones, Cemeteries, Death Care News, Graveyard Etiquette, History of Funerals, Traditions on October 17th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bahamian vault graves on San Salvador Island
Are you appalled by the idea that a family or community might re-use grave sites as mentioned in the previous Bahamian burial article? Or, perhaps the condition of the Bahamian cemeteries and grave sites might disturb you. If so, pick up the book, In Small Things Forgotten, by James Deetz to learn more about earlier American burials.
Filed under: About Tombstones, Cemeteries, Death & Dying, History of Funerals, Traditions on October 17th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At the beginning of month-long graduate school archaeological dig in the Bahamas, one student asked what the class would do if a body were found during the digs. One professor responded, “Call the authorities, because that body would not be an antiquity.”
Filed under: About Tombstones, Cemeteries, Graveyard Etiquette, History of Funerals on October 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments »