Faithful grudgebearer
From the Times of India: A bull bided its time and gored an old man to death when an opportunity came a day after the latter had thrown hot water on it. The bull followed the man when he was being taken to a hospital and later reached the crematorium during his funeral in little-known […]
Dog Day
Dignity Plc said its profit for the first half rose about 11 percent on strong performance in its funeral services and crematoria businesses. The company said its underlying pretax profit rose to 27.5 million pounds ($43.16 million) for the 26 weeks ending June 29 from 24.7 million pounds a year earlier. Dignity, which operates a […]
Faithfulness and fraudulence
Dogs who remain faithful to their masters and mistresses after their deaths have plenty of aah factor, always have done. Take Hachiko the Akita (pictured above), for example. Every day he would meet his owner, Professor Ueno, off the Tokyo train. One day, Prof Ueno died at work. Unable to take it in, Hachiko padded […]
From consumption to diabetes – changing causes of death in New England
Posted by Vale Back in 1812 in Boston it was consumption that was most likely to kill you, although out of 942 recorded deaths, teething killed 15 and childbed 14, the same number that were killed by the quinsy. In 1900 tuberculosis was near the top of the list, but pneumonia or influenza had overtaken […]
