Death customs
Red alert: Stringent measures needed
So far, a total of 139,710,707 cases of coronavirus have been registered. According to the Worldometers website, the number of active cases is close to 18,000,000.
Rome, Italy: cemeteries packed, protests of undertakers
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William and Harry Won't Be Shoulder-to-Shoulder at Prince Philip Funeral
British royals William and Harry will not walk side by side in the procession at this weekend's funeral of Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip, Buckingham Palace revealed Thursday.
As young boys in 1997, the pair provided the most poignant image of their mother princess Diana's funeral as they walked, heads bowed, behind her coffin.
Plovdiv Police Launches Raid on Funeral Agencies
A large-scale police operation is underway in Plovdiv, NOVA has learned from its sources. Police raided the offices of the city's funeral agencies to carry out checks.
The reason - alerts about frauds with prices for funerals, especially of those who died of coronavirus. These mourning ceremonies were by many times more expensive, victims say.
The crematorium is also targeted.
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Local man stuffed nearly 1,000 animals in 61 years
Niyazi Savcı, a 93-year-old man in the northwestern province of Kırklareli, has been continuing his life-long taxidermy art for 61 years.
Known as "uncle birdman" in the province, Savcı has applied taxidermy to nearly a 1,000 dead birds and wild animals by stuffing them with a special process in order to keep them intact.
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Project to exhibit taxidermies of rare animal species in pipeline
With the efforts of taxidermists from Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ), rare wildlife species that were found dead in nature or who died during their treatment in the eastern province of Van will be preserved through the method of taxidermy to exhibit them in a nature museum in order to bring them to future generations.
Egypt announces first major archeological discovery of 2021
52 burial wells were found with depths ranging from 10 to 12 meters and containing more than 50 wooden coffins dating back some 3,000 years
Greek Church Accused of Hiking Funeral Costs in Pandemic
The Archbishop of Athens has come under criticism in Greece for quietly raising the costs of church funerals during the pandemic by up to 250 per cent without any warning or explanation to funeral homes and the families of the deceased.
New artifacts found in Black Sea region excavations
Gifts dating back 1,800 years that have been given to the dead throughout history have been unearthed in a grave in the ancient city of Hadrianaupolis in the Ezkipazar district of the northern province of Karabük.
He is going to change the world': Funeral held for Floyd
George Floyd was fondly remembered on June 9 as "Big Floyd" — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood mentor, and now a catalyst for change — at a funeral for the black man whose death has sparked a global reckoning over police brutality and racial prejudice.
Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin
A Colombian advertising company is pitching a novel if morbid solution to shortages of hospital beds and coffins during the coronavirus pandemic: combine them.
ABC Displays has created a cardboard bed with metal railings that designers say can double as a casket if a patient dies.