RSS“Find A Grave”: Like A Phone Book For Dead People
Looking to put flowers on Doc Holliday’s grave–or maybe a bottle of whiskey–but it’s been so long since you’ve seen “Tombstone” that you can’t remember where they said he was buried?
Never fear, Find a Grave is at your service. Or, at least, they know where it was held.
Listing well over six thousand actors and close to four thousand authors and writer, Find a Grave has to be the largest grave index on the internet. Some contributors are credited with close to a million postings.
And before you scoff and say “oh, but when was the last time it was updated?” check out the New Listings page that includes Dan Fogelberg and Benazir Bhutto. Or the more recent 2008 Necrology.
Famous graves pages include pictures of the deceased, a short biography, and a picture of the grave site when available. For most famous graves, there is also a way to leave notes and virtual gifts, such as flowers or teddy bears. Users must register to use this feature. However, on some graves (such as William “Billy the Kid” Bonney’s), this has been disabled because “it was being continually misused.”
Search features for locating famous graves include the standards of by-location, claim-to-fame, and date. The most interesting search option is called “posthumous reunions.” Here, you can find listings for the graves of your favourite band, movie, or television show. Some reunion categories link sports teams or murder victims or criminal gangs. Not all of the listed categories under this search feature will return a list of names, as in the case of the “Poltergeist Reunion.”
The index does not contain itself to the famous, but includes a claimed listing of 20 million grave records. Now, we all know there are more than 20 million graves in the world. So, don’t be surprised if a search for your loved one ends with a link to the World Vital Records site or Ancestry.com.
(Photo: Scurzuzu)
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Learn How To Protect Yourself From Zombies
Bringing you information to help you survive the inevitable zombie uprising, promoting awareness and defense techniques, Zombies Are Coming is a useful site for everyone from the undead neophyte to the already-stockpiling-canned-goods-and-ammunition veteran.
While it is a relatively new site, it also is a timely one!
Special features to look for…
- “Zombies: An Educational Video”
- “Zombie Safety Council: Tip of the Month”
- “Let’s Talk Defense” which offers some home renovation ideas
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What’s in a name?
Are you planning on raising that baby as the Antichrist or the next Hitler? Maybe you’re just planning on sending him to clown college…
Either way, that kid’s gonna need a name befitting an evil destiny. Don’t worry. You don’t have to wade through obnoxiously cheerful baby name books looking for that one gem that could be just right for your malevolent progeny. The following links will take you to sites where they’ve done the work for you.
Much to our surprise, and despite all previous references to its evil propensities, Damien is not on either list.
The Canonical List of Evil Baby Names
20,000 Names (a list of less-traditional, highly-likely-to-get-your-kid-teased-mercilessly names)
Make your own horcrux
Well, not really. You can’t encapsulate part of your soul into these little gems. But they are part of you. Your ashes, to be exact.
In the past, your ashes had two options:
- sitting on the mantle in a boring urn collecting dust and dog hair
- flying into the winds off the edge of some cliff you had never visited in your life
Now, thanks to the genius folks at LifeGem®, you can have those ashes turned into gemstones. Through a process we like to call Elken Magic (because we don’t actually understand how this works), ashes of cremated individuals are filtered and compressed to make a “certified, high-quality diamond.”
Due to the unique nature of our scientific process, every single LifeGem will be a different shade, like a sunset captured in time or a wave upon the ocean. The elements and unique makeup of your loved one’s carbon directly affect the resulting color of your LifeGem diamond(s).
The process has become so streamlined over the last six years that they are able to create gemstones from locks of hair.
For our friends in the UK, here’s a link to Ashes 2 Gems, a company similar in mission to LifeGem.
Most expensive funeral ever
Want to be permanently preserved without having to climb up into the
The process of mummification was most famously practiced by Ancient Egyptians, dating back to approximately 3000 B.C.E. Archaeologists have found dozens of mummies, both intentional and accidental, throughout the world.
Now, thanks to Summum you can add your name to the ever increasing list of mummies. Previously limiting their services to the preservation of pets, Summum now offers to mummify humans.
Be warned, however. This process starts at $67,000 “under normal circumstances.” But, just think, you can be forever encased in this:
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