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'Green Reaper' Wants US to Be Green to the Grave

(April 22) -- Being dead as a doornail is apparently no excuse for not being concerned with the environment. That's why one mortician in Boring, Ore., is taking it upon herself to tell her customers how they can spend eternity without harming Earth -- by creating urns out of their leftover laundry lint. She's Elizabeth...

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02/22/12 Ashes-to-ashes: Lent starts today Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA Western Christian churches today mark Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the traditional 40-day period of fasting, prayer and penitence before Easter.
08/09/11 âGraveminder,' by Melissa Marr: Splendidly creepy Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC The town and its antiquated rituals make an appealing setting: the Graveminder, or Last Mourner, ringing a bell as she follows the coffin to the cemetery; the sprinkling of the earth with whiskey; the entrance to the land of the dead behind an old cabinet in the funeral parlor â it's all splendidly creepy.