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Go Green in Death with the Bio Urn

If you care about the environment and want your death to mean more than just a terrible loss for your loved ones, you might consider being green even after your last breath. The Bio Urn is not new but it's definitely gaining ground. Designed by Gerard Moline and Martin Azua, it's basically an urn made o...

12 March 2012
09:48 GMT

Doritos Creator Arch West Will Be Buried with Chips

The creator of the popular crispy chips Doritos, Arch West, has died. Whether as a final tribute or because this was his wish, he will be buried with two of his favorite flavors of Doritos, his family confirms.West, who came up with the idea for Doritos in 1961, died of natural causes at the Texas Health Presbyterian...

27 September 2011
08:24 GMT

Marks & Spencer to Offer Funeral Services

Retail giant Marks & Spencer is branching out, after registering a remarkable boost in sales over the past year. A new £900 million expansion plan announced the other day will offer customers M&S branded funerals.According to the Daily Mail, choosing fancier, customizable funeral services is the coolest tr...

10 November 2010
15:31 GMT

Rev. Al Sharpton Tweets Michael Jackson’s Funeral

The Jackson family is still shocked and outraged that certain media organizations have violated the no-fly zone over Forest Lawn and have aired footage of the funeral service held there last week for Michael Jackson. At the same time, it has emerged that Rev. Al Sharpton covered the entire event in posts on his Twitt...

8 September 2009
08:28 GMT

Randy Jackson Furious over MJ Funeral Footage

Michael Jackson was finally laid to rest last week, no less than ten weeks after he was rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest. Because the Jackson clan also organized, with the help of AEG Live, the public memorial service at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, the funeral was only for friends and family – me...

7 September 2009
05:28 GMT

Stars Gather for Extraordinary Funeral of Michael Jackson

Precisely ten weeks after he passed away, Michael Jackson has been buried in an extraordinary ceremony that saw 200 of his closest friends and relatives come together at the Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, LA Times informs. There were no paparazzi and no fans allowed this time, as A-list celebrities and people...

4 September 2009
04:25 GMT

Donations, Not Flowers at DJ AM Funeral, Family Asks

DJ AM, the renowned disc-jokey whose body was discovered in his New York City apartment late last Friday, has been laid to rest. As friends and family still struggle to cope with the loss of the 36-year-old Adam Goldstein, AM’s real name, a member of his family has taken to MySpace to urge all fans to hold the ...

3 September 2009
05:41 GMT

Michael Jackson to Be Buried on His Birthday, August 29

Michael Jackson has not yet been buried, despite the fact that almost seven weeks have gone by since he passed away. Although some reports claimed, at one point, that the Jackson clan had laid his body to rest in an unmarked grave during a secret ceremony, according to Joe Jackson, Michael’s father, this couldn...

18 August 2009
02:54 GMT

Michael Jackson Frozen, Not Buried Yet

It’s been almost seven weeks that Michael Jackson has passed away and he has yet to be laid to rest, despite what reports said just a week ago, when word leaked in the media that he had been buried in an unmarked grave during a secret ceremony where only family members had access. TMZ says now it has proof that...

17 August 2009
08:42 GMT

Hollywood Pays Respect at David Carradine’s Funeral

Ten days since he was found dead in his hotel suite in Bangkok after apparently chocking by accident, the body of actor David Carradine was laid to rest following a funeral service held at Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, The Los Angeles Times informs. Over 400 guests, including family members and clos...

15 June 2009
05:29 GMT

Breaking: Heath Ledger Cause of Death Announced

The New York City medical examiner's office has just released a statement with regard to Heath Ledger's death. They have deemed the actor's death an accidental overdose - which should put an end to all the rumors saying he might have committed suicide. I was about to say this is good news - but under t...

6 February 2008
11:07 GMT

Heath Ledger Update: Autopsy, Cause of Death and Funeral

It's only been a day since the talented Australian actor Heath Ledger passed away in his New York City apartment, and already there is a huge amount of information related to the circumstances of his tragic passing swirling around, a mixture of fact, speculation and rumors that makes me think the worse is yet to...

24 January 2008
06:55 GMT

Dead Man Returns Among The Living at His Own Funeral

Voodoo stories are just stories; Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is just for entertainment; but this is a real case. You could imagine the shock lived by the relatives of an 87-year-old man from Chiayi County, Taiwan, when "the deceased" woke up at his own funeral.The Taiwanese's relatives and friends were in ...

5 July 2007
07:13 GMT

Anna Nicole Smith's Funeral Is Pay-Per-View

Anna Nicole Smith will finally be laid to rest. After the judge ruled out Smith's mother's appeal of taking the body to Texas, Virgie Arthur told the media that she would not contest the ruling, thus accepting with the initial one, of burying the former model in the Bahamas, next to her son, Daniel Smith. A...

2 March 2007
06:19 GMT


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