Glen Beaton of Inverness, Scotland tried to auction his deceased mother’s ashes on eBay. He turned to the popular auction web site in an attempt to fulfill his mother’s last wish. Mr. Beaton was trying to use the Internet as a vehicle to get his mother’s remains scattered in every part of the world. His [...]

I saw this article on Yahoo! News today about a woman in India who was married to her dead boyfriend minutes before he was cremated. The whole article is here. Weird? You betcha!
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According to the CDC, the top 10 causes of death in the United States and the number of people affected are:
Heart Disease: 696,947
Cancer: 557,271
Stroke: 162,672
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,816
Accidents: 106,742
Diabetes: 73,249
Influenza/Pneumonia: 65,681
Alzheimer’s disease: 58,866
Nephritis, Nephrotic Syndrome, and Nephrosis: 40,974
Septicemia: 33,865
There were 30,622 suicides and 16,110 murders during the same year.