BURIAL

Researchers Uncover 29 Graves at the Original Site of a Razed Black Cemetery in Clearwater, Florida

People have long believed that a 1954 cemetery relocation process in Clearwater, Florida, was incomplete. They were right.

A drawing of dancing at Enon Chapel from George Walker's "Lectures on the metropolitan grave-yards"

The Disgusting Victorian Cemetery That Helped Change Burials in London Forever

Enon Chapel was separated from its burial pit by just a thin layer of creaky floorboards.

The Phony Disease That Helped Researchers Identify Bach's (Purported) Body

Can playing the church organ give you a disease?

9 Facts About Human Decomposition

Sometimes it can create "soapy" corpses.

A Vertical Cemetery for Cities Running Out of Room for Their Dead

The world doesn't have room for sprawling, grassy graveyards anymore.

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Why a Maryland Cemetery Initially Rejected F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Corpse

The famed writer died 75 years ago today, but at the time of his death, the Catholic church that housed his family's burial plots wouldn't allow Fitzgerald to be buried there.

The Newest Frontier in Final Resting Places: The Moon

Only 12 people have walked on the moon, but you can spend all of eternity there.