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David S. Kime Jr. was a very loyal customer to the Burger King chain, so much so that his family decided to make the Manchester Township location in Pennsylvania a pit stop during the war vet’s funeral procession. “He liked his Whopper Jrs.,” said store manager Margaret Hess. “”It’s...

When Gilberto Araujo showed up to the grave side to watch the casket go into the ground some mourners screamed, others fainted and a few fled. They thought the man in the casket was the car washer from northeastern Brazil. “Guys, I’m alive. Pinch me,” the man told the...

Settle down all you bacon enthusiasts because the coffin isn’t made out of real bacon, but rather made to look like a giant replica of the sizzling pork deliciousness.  Too bad because a casket made out of real bacon would save a lot of money on food for the...

Radio contests come in all shapes and sizes but one at Radio Galaxy in Germany has memorable memorial written all over it. More than 600 people have entered a contest to win money to cover their funeral by writing their own epitaph for their gravestone. The lucky winner will...

OK, maybe not the world’s worst person, but this guy is right up there for this despicable act of stealing from the coffin of a recently dead teenager. During public visitation for Bradley McCombs, a 17-year-old who died on Christmas Day after his SUV flipped over on a snowy...

Latest reports out of Moscow this week reveal that a new cemetery for the elite will be open by 2012. According to the report, Russia’s high mortality rate is causing concern that the city’s famous and wealthy residents may not have a final resting place. With a drop in population by some 6.8 million people...

Cristian Capatanescu succumbed to multiple organ failure on a Bucharest hospital bed awaiting surgery that would have helped him to lose weight – he was 54. At the time of his death the 184-centimeter-tall man weighed in at around 400 kilograms. Capatanescu’s weight made him the fattest man in...