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Euston’s lost burial ground

Closing St James’s Gardens for a new rail line required the largest exhumation in British history. Tom Bolton explores the stories of some of the people who were buried there.

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The island of unclaimed bodies

In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.

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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Why we no longer keep our dead at home

Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.

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  • Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.
  • Burial scene prepresented in rock-painting, Zimbabwe.
  • W. Tebb, Premature Burial and how it may be
  • Burial of Saint Catherine. Engraving by A. Wierix III.
  • Burial of the Rheinish Early Bronze Age. Foret de Schirrein, (Bas Rhein).
  • Burial of the dead in the graveyard of a parish church. Etching by James Taylor.
  • Burial of Saint Petronilla. Engraving by J. Frey, 1731, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Long chambered burial cairn, Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney.
  • Pit burial at Liury-sur-Vesle (Marne).
  • Burial of Saint Stephen, the first martyr. Coloured lithograph by R. Amerigo after Masip (Juan de Juanes).
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