Death customs

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‘Attention Seeking’ Teen Shows Up To Prom In A Coffin

New Jersey teenager Megan Flaherty knows how to make an entrance at her senior prom ― by pretending it’s her end....

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Did A Vengeful Corpse Just Reveal Its Killer?

A video has surfaced somewhere in West Africa which claims to show a corpse revealing its assassin. If you take a...

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Ex-AIDS Ambassador Goes Bald To Mourn Husband

Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, a former ‘Heart to Heart’ HIV/AIDS Ambassador has shaved off all her hair as part of mourning...

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Funeral Goes Awry As Corpse Goes Missing

There was confusion at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital when a family couldn’t locate the body of their dead...

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Mortuary Sued For ‘refusing Gay Funeral’

A mortuary in Mississippi is being sued by the husband of a gay man for allegedly refusing to cremate him because of...

Headlines

How Humans Are Ruining Earth From Beyond the Grave

It's not only in life that humans leave their mark on nature. In death, our decomposing corpses alter the chemistry of...

International

Thousands of Officers Lining Funeral Route

Thousands of police officers have gathered in London for the funeral of PC Keith Palmer, who was killed in last month's...

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Funeral Called Off After ‘dead Man’ Was Spotted Drinking In Bar

A funeral was dramatically called off after the supposedly dead man was spotted drinking at a nearby bar as mourners...

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Demo Hits Daasebre’s 2nd Burial

A group of people who paraded themselves as Friends of the late Daasebre Gyamenah over the weekend organised a...

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Government Gives GHc 7,000 Each To Bereaved Families of Kintampo Disaster

Bereaved families of the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster at the weekend received GH¢ 7,000 each from government through...

International

Death Toll In Addis Ababa Rubbish Dump Landslide Rises To 115

The Horn of Africa country has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the disas Emergency workers...

Entertainment

Paternal Family To Hold Daasebre Gyamenah’s Funeral On April 1

Father side of the late highlife musician Daasebre Gyamenah has planned of organising a funeral for their relative....

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Police Hospital To Bury Unclaimed Bodies End of March

The Greater Accra Regional Police has asked the public to visit the Police Hospital’s pathology department to...

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Holding A Corpse To Ransom – Only In Our Backyard

Soft comforting parting words such as “Rest in peace,” “Da yie,” “Nyame mfa wo nsie” and “Sleep well in...

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Tema Hospital Probes Corpse Seizure Drama

An enquiry has been instituted by management of the Tema General Hospital into the circumstances under which mortuary...

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Drama Over Dead Body At Tema

TWO EMBALMERS at the Tema General Hospital on Saturday caused a stir at the Community 9 cemetery, where they seized a...

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Mortuary Men Storm Burial Ground, Snatch Corpse Over Unpaid Balance!

Without much ado, the mortuary men flipped the casket open, dragged out the corpse, landed it on their shoulders and...

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Mortuary Officials Seize Corpse at Cemetery Over GHc150 (Approx. $33) Debt

There was drama at the Tema Community Nine Cemetery on Saturday, when two mortuary men from the Tema General Hospital...

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Mortuary Man Storms Cemetery, Seizes Corpse Over GHC40 ‘debt’

There was drama at the Tema Community 9 Cemetery on Saturday February 11, 2016 when a popular mortuary man with the...