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Archaeologists uncover unique cremation graves By ÄŒTK / Published 20 March 2008 Prostejov, South Moravia, March 19 (CTK) - Czech archaeologists have uncovered unique cremation graves in Prostejov that date back to the Neolithic period of the Linear Pottery culture and that indicate that people believed in human soul's existence 7,000 years ago already, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote Wednesday. The graves were uncovered during construction of a new industrial zone on the eastern edge of the town. "This is the first cremation burial site of the Linear-Pottery-culture to be uncovered on Czech soil. Below it there are skeleton graves...

"Cremated son" turns up alive Mon Nov 5, 2007 11:33am EST LONDON (Reuters) - A mother cremated a body she thought was that of her dead son, only for him to turn up alive later, police said on Friday. Gina Partington's 37-year-old son Thomas Dennison was reported missing last month and a body was found in Rusholme, Manchester, three days later. The 58-year-old mother, from Urmston, Greater Manchester, formally identified the body as that of her son and, following an inquest, the body was cremated on October 30. But police had actually found Dennison, living rough in Nottingham, four days...

Hot on the Hoffa trail Taylor cop thinks he has the answer to 1975 vanishing of union leader July 1, 2007 BY JOEL THURTELL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Jimmy Hoffa's last car ride took less than two minutes. On July 30, 1975, he rode one long block south from a two-story house at 17841 Beaverland in Detroit's tough Brightmoor neighborhood and turned right -- west -- on Grand River Ave. He passed the greens of William Rogell Golf Course and a scenic footbridge, crossed the woodsy Rouge River, cruised past the brown brick Redford Granite Co. building and the Mt....

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — A northern Idaho woman says a funeral home cremated her husband without permission and in the process destroyed an artificial leg worth more than $7,000. DeeDee Strimas also claims in a lawsuit that English Funeral Chapels & Crematory gave her the cremated remains of someone other than her husband. She is suing for the value of the leg and for damages of more than $10,000 for "emotional and physical distress." She suffers from "headaches, depression, insomnia accompanied by nightmares, and fear that the remains are not those of her late husband," her lawsuit says. John Strimas...

Why Orthodox Christians Are Not Cremated Fr. John Touloumes Cremation (burning the bodies of those who have died to the point of ashes) is a practice which is being "sold" as a cost-effective, space-conservative alternative to traditional burial of the body. Throughout her history, however, the Orthodox Church has prohibited this practice. But, as in many areas of the Faith, we must take the time to learn why the Church takes such a position. In doing so, we not only grow in our own knowledge of the Lord and His Church, but we are better prepared to answer questions others...

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian scientist called Wednesday for an end to the age-old tradition of cremation, saying the practice contributed to global warming. Professor Roger Short said people could instead choose to help the environment after death by being buried in a cardboard box under a tree. The decomposing bodies would provide the tree with nutrients, and the tree would convert carbon dioxide into life-giving oxygen for decades, he said. "The important thing is, what a shame to be cremated when you go up in a big bubble of carbon dioxide," Short told AFP. "Why waste all that carbon...

Fire breaks out at Salt Lake crematoriumby Larry Warren LAST UPDATE: 10/25/2006 12:06:00 AM A dead man had one final earthly act before moving on. Fire officials said the six-hundred pound man was in being cremated when his body fluids were too much for the oven. The body fluids seeped out onto the floor and ignited causing a fire at the Garner Funeral Home in Salt Lake City. "Those fluids can be very flammable," said Scott Freitag of the Salt Lake City fire department. "Sort of like a grease fire." An employee used an extinguisher to put out the fire....

Alistair Cooke: Revered in life but deserted in death By Adam Goldman Associated Press NEW YORK - After Alistair Cooke’s death in the early morning of March 30, 2004, he was wheeled out of his Upper East Side apartment on a collapsible gurney and whisked away into the darkness. Three days later, Cooke returned home in a small, cardboard box. Susan Cooke Kittredge examined the ashes of her father, the refined and legendary host of "Masterpiece Theatre" on PBS and longtime BBC correspondent. Something was odd, she thought. A minister, she had handled ashes in the past; usually there were...

Pacemaker Blamed As Explosion Inside Coffin Halts Cremation Posted on Saturday, May 27 @ 21:57:06 CDT A MINOR explosion in a coffin rocked Carlisle’s crematorium after a funeral service yesterday afternoon. The cause is still being investigated – but it is believed to have been the result of a pacemaker being left inside a body. It is understood that members of the family involved have been informed of what happened. No-one was hurt in the incident and there was no disruption to funeral services or cremations. The crematorium, in Dalston Road, is operated by the city council’s bereavement services department....

I am surprised by how often Christians are stunned to hear me say that cremation is not a Christian act. Previous generations of Christians would have understood exactly, but today an anti-cremation stance seems at best Luddite and at worst carnal. People will ask, "Can't God raise a cremated Christian just as he can raise a decomposed buried Christian?" I am surprised by how often Christians are stunned to hear me say that cremation is not a Christian act. Previous generations of Christians would have understood exactly, but today an anti-cremation stance seems at best Luddite and at worst carnal....

Exposing Shocking Horrors Inside Sujiatun Concentration Camp By Ji Da Epoch Times Staff Mar 11, 2006 A reporter from China who worked for a Japanese television news agency and specialized in Chinese news recently escaped to the United States after being wanted in China for reporting on controversial issues. (The Epoch Times) High-res image (1200 x 900 px, 72 dpi) [ Warning: graphic photos below ] Falun Gong Practitioners a Cheap Source of Black Market Organs In recent years, international organ buying and selling markets have had extreme shortages. As the world's most populous country with the death penalty, China...

Diamonds are forever -- and now mom, dad and grandma can be, too -- thanks to a process that converts ashes from their cremated remains into gems. ``My wife and I had already decided on cremation when we die,'' said Scott Mason of the Adams-Mason Memorial Chapel in Akron. ``She never wants me to talk about business at home, but when I brought up the diamond option, it piqued her interest. ``We like the idea that when we die, we will be able to leave a lasting gift and a special memory to our family.'' The ashes-to-diamond cremation option was...

/begin my translationChina: 77 Avian Flu Patients Dead in Liaoning Province...Victim's Name Published on Internet2005/11/21 In Liaoning Province of China, 6 people were infected with H5N1 Avian Flu and had died recently, according to Nov. 20 report by an overseas Chinese language news site, Boxun, quoting the article posted by a poster.Six victims were 4 students in Beining City, 1 epidemic-prevention worker, and another person whose identity is unknown. According to the post, the number of dead people from H5N1 Avian Flu in Liaoning Province has reached 77, including the six new victims. Furthermore, at one of domestic Chinese Internet site,...

AN EXALTED DORMITION Geoffrey Kirk preached at the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on the Feast of the Assumption. WHEN MY EDWARDIAN predecessor erected in St Stephen’s Lewisham an elaborate tabernacle for the Blessed Sacrament he surrounded it, as you do, with Latin texts taken from the gospels. Below the door, in pride of place he wrote ‘Et verbum caro factum est. ' Words from the first chapter of St John: ‘And the word was made flesh’. My predecessor, no doubt, was wanting to make a point, still controversial in the Church of England in those days, about...

The burial of Terri Schiavo's cremated remains didn't bring an end to the acrimony between her husband and her family. Michael Schiavo angered his late wife's family Monday by not notifying them about the burial beforehand and by inscribing on her bronze grave marker the words "I kept my promise." Michael Schiavo _ who said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially _ also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date his wife "Departed this Earth." On that date, Schiavo collapsed and fell into what most doctors said was an irreversible vegetative state. Schiavo actually died...

Potato-chip can found in place of woman's remains in mausoleum The empty niche at left at Congregation Beth Israel's mausoleum once held the ashes of Vivian Shulman Lieberman. The niche of her husband, Seymour Lieberman, is at right. When relatives of Vivian Shulman Lieberman went to visit her final resting place in a Houston mausoleum one year ago today, they discovered that the cedar chest containing her ashes was missing. In its place, behind the locked, glass door of Lieberman's niche in Congregation Beth Israel's mausoleum, was a can of sour-cream-and-onion potato chips. The ashes are still missing, says Philip...

WAUKEGAN, Ill. Officials at a Salvation Army center in northern Illinois are hoping someone will come forward to reclaim an unusual donation. It seems someone dropped off a box containing the cremated remains of a man named Homer Oglesby at the Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Waukegan. Center administrator Pamela Church says the ashes were found when workers were sorting through a larger donation made several weeks ago. She says it's obviously a mistake and she's hoping his family comes forward to claim them. Oglesby was almost 90 when he died in Waukegan in November of 2003. Church says...

Wake up America . . . the alarm clock just went off and we keep turning over and going back to sleep. There's an "uprisin' on the horizon" and we refuse to face it. Sleeping through it might make it easier, but the end result will be devastating. We've had a lightning bolt cut through the very core of our foundation forming a crack so deep we could topple by our weight of indifference. This ship is listing badly; so tilted we may never be uprighted again. Our love affair with America is "breaking apart" because our foundation is cracking....

OBITUARY Today we mourn the passing of a dearly beloved old friend by the name of Common Sense, who has been with us for many years !!! No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape !!! He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always fair !!! Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting...

Terri Schiavo autopsy completed Her parents, husband planning separate funeral arrangements Saturday, April 2, 2005 Posted: 1540 GMT (2340 HKT) http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/04/02/schiavo.ap TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- The autopsy of Terri Schiavo has been completed, and the body is ready for release to her husband, who plans to cremate her remains and bury the ashes in an unspecified family plot. Results from the autopsy, which was completed Friday, will not be released for several weeks, according to the medical examiner's office. Michael Schiavo has said he hopes the autopsy will settle questions about his wife's medical condition, but experts differ on whether...

TAMPA, Fla. — Terri Schiavo's body was cremated Saturday as disagreements continued between her husband and her parents, who were unable to have their own independent expert observe her autopsy.Michael Schiavo has not spoken publicly since his wife's death, but Felos said Saturday: "He's holding up. It's very difficult for him." Michael Schiavo is required to tell his wife's parents of any memorial services he plans for Terri Schiavo and where her ashes are interred.

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Michael Schiavo plans to keep the location of where he will bury Terri Schiavo's ashes a secret and will prevent Terri's family from knowing. His brother told the media on Thursday that Terri's family would show up and cause a spectacle if they found out. "If Mike knew they would come in peace, he would have no problem with it," Scott Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother, told AP. A complete autopsy will be performed on Terri's body by the local county medical examiner's office. Once that is completed, Michael plans to have Terri's body cremated and...

Title XXIXPUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 406MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD BODIES 406.11">406.11 Examinations, investigations, and autopsies.-- (1) In any of the following circumstances involving the death of a human being, the medical examiner of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found shall determine the cause of death and shall, for that purpose, make or have performed such examinations, investigations, and autopsies as he or she shall deem necessary or as shall be requested by the state attorney: (a) When any person dies in the state: 1. Of criminal violence. 2. By accident. 3. By suicide. 4....

Terri Schiavo's husband is set to inflict what her grieving relatives charge is the final insult: insisting that her body be cremated against their religious wishes — and then buried in his own family's plot. "They would like to have her body so they can have a Christian Mass and a Christian burial," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, the spiritual adviser to the deeply Roman Catholic family. "They want their daughter. If they can't have her in life, they would hope he'd have compassion and give her in death." But Michael Schiavo refused to budge on the extremely emotional issue as...

Michael Schiavo decided to have his wife's body cremated after her parents' lawyers obtained medical records showing she had sustained broken bones, a nurse who cared for Terri Schiavo is now claiming. "He wanted her cremated after the bone fractures and dislocations were found," nurse Carla Sauer Iyer, who cared for Terri in the mid-1990s while she was at the Palm Gardens Convalescent Center, told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity on Friday. "He immediately went to court and [said he] wanted her body cremated at that time," she said, "after we got hold of the records that proved there were...

Earlier today a caller on Rush's show asked if the Schindler family would have to beg Michael for Terri's body. I had the understanding that she is to be immediately cremated once she has been pronounced dead. Can someone point me in the right direction for verification of this repugnant piece of information?

by Fr. William Saunders Other Articles by Fr. William Saunders Instruction on Cremation 07/30/04 Recently, a neighbor’s wife died. She was then cremated. They want to take her ashes and spread them in the mountains she enjoyed hiking so much. As Catholics, are we allowed to cremate (I think we are now) and are we allowed to spread the ashes? While cremation is definitely becoming more and more popular, it is actually something new to Catholic Christian tradition. The early Church retained the Jewish practice of bodily burial and rejected the common pagan Roman practice of cremation. The basis for this...

Cremation's rising popularity gives birth to new funeral services industry OLYMPIA _ In Washington, ashes to ashes is proving a lot more popular than dust to dust. In 1980, about two-thirds of the people who died here were buried. Most of the rest were cremated. Today, that ratio has nearly reversed. More than six out of 10 Washingtonians now end up in an urn, rather than a coffin. "There's no doubt -- it's growing by leaps and bounds," said Bill Rossey, owner of Spokane Cremation and Burial Service. According to the Cremation Association of North America, Washington's cremation rate is...

Wrong body handed over for cremation AUSTIN (AP) — Travis County officials are investigating how the medical examiner's office accidentally released the wrong body to a funeral home, which cremated the remains. "We are very sorry this happened," Dr. Roberto Bayardo, the chief medical examiner, said in Wednesday's editions of the Austin American-Statesman. "We have to find out how this mistake occurred. I had thought we were foolproof." The mix-up occurred last week when funeral home officials went to pick up the body of Paul Williams, 38, of Cedar Park, who had been hit by a train. They were mistakenly...

The 2003 Florida Statutes Title XLVI CRIMES Chapter 872 OFFENSES CONCERNING DEAD BODIES AND GRAVES 872.03 Cremating human bodies; limitation.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to cremate any dead human body prior to the expiration of 48 hours after the death of such human body. (2) Anyone convicted for the violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 21780, 1943; s. 1135, ch. 71-136. Title XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 406 MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Sunday Oct. 19, 2003; 1:55 a.m. EDTTerri To be Cremated on Husband's Orders Terri Schiavo will be cremated immediately after her death on orders from her husband Michael, her brother and sister revealed late Saturday, precluding any possibility that an autopsy that could determine whether her brain damage was caused by a heart attack or physical abuse. Terri's siblings Suzanne Carr and Robert Schindler, Jr., told Fox News Channel's "The Big Story with Rita Cosby" that they'd like the authorities to examine the circumstances of the events that caused of their sister's brain damage, based on medical...

Military cremation would alter tradition WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon is considering cremating remains of troops who may die in a chemical or biological attack in a possible war with Iraq, officials said Thursday. Use of field cremation would alter a longtime U.S. military tradition of making every effort to return each person's body home in a flag-draped coffin. It is not yet clear if the military would operate a crematorium in the Middle East or how the ashes would be sorted and returned to families. The Pentagon also would have to address cultural and religious objections by some service...

Corpses Discovered in Spain HomeBy JEROME SOCOLOVSKY Associated Press Writer MADRID, Spain (AP)--The discovery of at least 19 corpses--some dead for a decade--in the home and car of a former funeral parlor employee could shed new light on thousands of cases of cremation fraud in Spain, authorities said Tuesday. Police found the remains Monday after the 40-year-old suspect, who worked until last year as a driver for a local funeral home, was stopped at a random road check in the town of Ardales, 250 miles south of Madrid. Six skulls and a number of bones were packed inside industrial-size garbage...