11 Most Bizarre European Ossuaries

Across Europe in many predominantly Catholic or Orthodox countries are sites known as ossuaries, often referred to as “bone churches”. Creepy by today’s standards, these churches decorated from floor to ceiling with human skeletal remains were often used in places where major plagues had hit or where burial space had become scare. Though the original intention in many areas was for bones to be buried when space became available, many of these remains are still up and hanging in these bone churches as a testament to this peculiar religious tradition.
If you have to die some day, do it in style with a coffin with built-in surround sound!
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The stories of the sex ghosts and the magical big dick mummies

Nothing in that headline is misleading. In an interview with The Hairpin, author, photographer and ossuary expert Paul Koudounaris sat down to talk about some of the weirder traditions he’s encountered in regards to ossuaries, mummies and treatment of the dead.
And this year’s best Christmas commercial comes from a funeral parlor in Juarez, Mexico
That’s just creepy.
Trailer for TLC’s new dumbass show ‘Best Funeral Ever’
A look at life — and death, mostly — at Dallas’ Golden Gate Funeral Home, as seen in this trailer from the upcoming December 26 special
And now, here’s a stupidly cheerful song about all the ways you can die
If only death was this charming.
And today, on Ask a Mortician… can a sealed casket explode?
Learn all about putrefaction and rotting corpses on this episode of Ask a Mortician.
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Ask a mortician: All about corpse defecation
In the latest videos in the “Ask a Mortician” series, the mortician in question finally answers the most common question she’s asked, and it’s all about pooping corpses.
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Maurice Sendak moment of zen: Maurice on life and death
From “Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak”, a documentary by Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs.
Meanwhile in Egypt… soon it will be legal to fuck your dead wife

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death.
This is what happens to metal implants after someone is cremated

When people are cremated, everything in the body is turned into fine ash— everything except for any non-organic components or implants the person may have had. So what happens to all those metal pins and knees and joints and bones? They’re recycled into new metal implants.
New South Korean thing: Turning your departed loved ones into beads

When you or your loved ones pass on, as an alternative to burying or cremating or freezing or having your body stuffed and posed to put in your kid’s living room, many South Koreans have opted to have the remains of their family turned into beads.

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