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Custom Memorials & Your Guide to Popular Headstone Symbols

With the extensive selection of custom memorials, almost any symbol or message can be added to stone grave markers. However, despite a plethora of options, there are

Coins left on veterans' headstones tell a story

Fort Bliss National Cemetery near El Paso is home to more than 43,000 graves, the final resting place for many of our nation's heroes.

Letter: Now that the monuments are coming down...

What Do You Do With Controversial Monuments and Statues?

Cities around the country are scrambling with ways to accommodate monuments to a past that many consider as oppressive.

What Can Be Done With Cremation Ashes?

During the cremation process, the body of the deceased gets reduced to bone fragments. These bone fragments are further reduced in size with the help of certain machineries. The final product looks like fine sand and is known as cremated remains. Usually white in color, the cremated remains will weigh between 4lbs to 8lbs depending upon the body structure of the deceased. The cremated remains are…

Find A Coin On A Headstone? Don't Touch,Here's Why

Coins on a headstone? Finders, keepers? Not this time.

Cemetery Etiquette: What you Need to Know for that Cemetery Trip

Gravestones can have useful information that could help you break through a brick wall, and grow your family tree. Although not all cemeteries are local to your area, with sites like FindAGrave.com , distant gravestones are made available to you online. If you’re lucky and find that a gravestone you are looking for is near you, there are some things you’ll first need to know before you visit the cemetery. With these quick tips, you’ll be ‘graving’ in no timeBe RespectfulThis…

You've Got to See These Photos of Azaleas at Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery is full of historic headstones and gorgeous Spanish moss. During springtime, Bonaventure becomes a wonderland vibrant with azaleas.

More cemeteries are going green

Four of the eight Green Burial Council-certified cemeteries in New York are in Rochester.

How To Pre-Plan Cremation

When a body is cremated, the remains are burned to ash (sometimes called “cremains” or "cremated remains"). The cremated remains may be buried in the earth, interred in a columbarium, kept by the family in an urn, or scattered.

Do You Know the Lubbock Cemetery Angel's Creepy Story?

There is a strange story about the big angel statue at the City of Lubbock Cemetery.

This Is Probably The Most High-Tech Cemetery In the World

The Ruriden columbarium, operated by the Koukokuji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo, is as futuristic as the capital of Japan itself. Believe it or not, this is a cemetery.

Cemeteries are the perfect spot to track our planet’s demise

Between the headstones at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, citizen scientists record data on changing plant, animal, and insect behavior.

5 Prayers for the dead (that you can take to the cemetery)

Remember, O Lord, that they are Thy creatures, not made by strange gods, but by Thee … While the Catholic tradition of visiting a cemetery during

People Are Sharing Inappropriate Thoughts They've Had At Funerals And It's A Lot

A Graveyard Is a Good Place to Make Big Decisions

“Your life is worth living, precisely because it isn’t your life at all.” Russell Moore

How To Develop Persistence by Napoleon Hill

‘Think and Grow Rich’ by Napoleon Hill is unarguably one of the greatest personal development books ever written. Highly endorsed by the world’s top leaders such as Bob Proctor and Tony Robbins, if you haven’t read it you’re already behind. I first read ‘Think and Grow Rich’ about 4 years ago and since then have […]