Tag: FUNERAL

Ironically enough, perhaps the only thing more emotionally painful than attending a funeral is having to miss one. But grieving friends and family in one Brazilian town are now able to say goodbye to their departed loved ones from anywhere in the world -- as long as they have an Internet connection, and some extra cash. The Gonzaga funeral home, located in the city of Governador Valadares, has ...

On Monday, Tony Curtis was finally laid to rest, just a few days after the 85-year-old actor succumbed to cardiac arrest at his home near Las Vegas. More than 400 friends and family gathered to bid adieu to the 'Some Like It Hot' thespian, including his daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and, apparently, his iPhone. According to the AP, Curtis was buried along with a handful of ...

Bereaved Web surfers in Hong Kong now have a new way to digitally honor their lost loved ones, thanks to www.memorial.gov.hk, a site that lets users pay tribute to deceased friends and family with their own online memorials. Users can custom design dedicatory profile pages for their honorees, and upload photos, videos, and background music to the shrine. Mourners can also choose whether or not to ...

Get ready to say goodbye to an old friend, folks. Due to upgrades and advances, many companies and users are laying Internet Explorer 6 to rest. A simple software update works well enough, but some take it a little further. According to CNN, a Denver, Colorado company called Aten Design Group hosted a mock funeral Thursday for Microsoft's nearly defunct Web browser. About 100 people ...

Walmart, America's most sprawling and infamous retailer, is now attempting to corner the death market. The discount warehouse has recently launched a line of caskets and urns on its online store, Walmart.com. The caskets run anywhere from $895 to $3,199, but for the moderate price of $1,699, for instance, you can get the Executive Privilege casket for your business-class loved one. Although ...

Our request that our funeral be an orgy of booze, funk, and mocking has earned us more than a few eye-rolls and a dismissive, "nerd," or two. From now on though we have an example to point to when people say we're ridiculous. In a creative, yet incredibly geeky gesture, a man decided to bury his brother, Alan, in his 1990s-era SPARCstation. The high-end workstation from Sun was gutted and ...

We've seen how you can plan your funeral online, which seems like a reasonable thing these days given that you can plan just about anything else on the Internet. However, did you know that you can now attend a funeral online? That's a service currently offered by Shoedinger Funeral and Cremation Service in Columbus, Ohio (as well as a few other places), and is a service we think will become ...

We've all been to a funeral or wake before for a friend or relative that we just know the deceased would have found unbearable. If you're worried about your funeral becoming a an overly-sappy mess, or hate 'Amazing Grace' and want to make sure nobody breaks out a throat-warbling rendition of it, then swing by MyWonderfulLife. MyWonderfulLife allows users to gather their postmortem wishes and has ...