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...cathedral; a 12th century masterpiece that started out as Romanesque but was added to by every Bishop of Braga, making it a living architectural lesson, with Gothic arches alongside Baroque windows. Don't miss the cathedral's museum, which contains everything from a Hispano-Arab casket in silver from the 10th century to a pair of platform shoes belonging to a vertically challenged bishop. The area's biggest attraction is the Bom Jesus Sanctuary, 3 km east of town. It is a spectacular 19th century monument standing on a high wooded hill with views of the Soajo Mountains...
...corpse was later fished out of the nearby Tallahatchie River. His killers had severely beaten him, gouged out his eyes and put a hole in his head, through which his distraught mother said she could see daylight. Thousands of people came to his open-casket funeral, the black magazine Jet ran photos of his ruined face, and by the time an all-white jury acquitted Bryant's husband Roy and his half brother J.W. Milam in a sham trial, Till's death was a touchstone for black America, fueling support for the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that same year. Whites...
...when he was carried to his grave two years later, his casket was accompanied by all the clergymen of the city, every one of them, of every faith...
...Babs McDonald, 49, and her husband Ken Cordell, 59, of Athens, Ga., have already bought plots in Ramsey Creek Preserve, a 33-acre South Carolina cemetery dedicated to environmentally friendly burials. They shudder at the thought of going the "conventional route"--being embalmed and then buried in a fancy casket. "Just dig a hole, put me in it, then cover me back up," says McDonald. Come that day, they plan to be buried dressed in jeans and T shirts and wrapped in cotton shrouds. Says Cordell, an environmental scientist: "I figure I'll just fertilize a tree...
Ernie Wolfe, an African-art dealer in Los Angeles, plans to have his ashes placed in a 10-ft. lobster-shaped casket. Custom-designed urns also provide distinctive resting places. But there are other things to do with the ashes. They can be melded into concrete "reef balls" by Eternal Reefs in Decatur, Ga. Or launched on a rocket by Houston-based Celestis to orbit the earth in a capsule. Or turned into diamonds by LifeGem in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Allen Lucas, a construction-company executive from Kitty Hawk, N.C., asked LifeGem to turn his share of his mother...