Venezuela’s economic crisis forces families to live in cemeteries as tomb raiders loot graves

With nowhere to live, families in Venezuela have been forced to live in a cemetery, where their children beg for money and looters dig up graves around them. In the south of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, more and more families are calling the Southern General cemetery home.  Among them are Jendry, 11, and his sister Wineisis, … Read more

British war graves staff tending European cemeteries face a ‘50% pay cut’ due to Brexit

British war graves staff working in France and Belgium tending to the resting places of soldiers killed during both World Wars are reportedly facing a 50% pay cut due to Brexit.    The unsung heroes have expressed their outrage after they were reportedly told they must face a pay cut or return to the UK.  The … Read more

Victorian pet cemeteries reveal rise of belief in a pet afterlife 

A British belief in a pet afterlife has risen since the Victorian era, according to an analysis of pet graves in London and Newcastle.  Researchers examined pet graves in four British pet cemeteries, spanning burials from Queen Victoria’s reign through to the 1980s. They found a growing number of references to owners and pets being reunited … Read more