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...very tough process especially if you put your soul on paper, which it requires you to,” Strava said. DAY OF THE DEADBrants, a history and literature concentrator, will spend her year in Puebla, Mexico studying the Day of the Dead and death rituals related to mourning. “I lost my father at the end of my freshman year, so I’m interested in how different cultures deal with death,” she said.Brants, who is also a self-described “foodie,” said she chose to travel...
...India as Parsis) regard sky burials, in which the bodies are exposed to natural elements including vultures in open-topped "Towers of Silence," as an ecologically friendly alternative to cremation, consistent with their religion's reverence for the earth. A Zoroastrian priest clad in a long, cotton robe explains: "Death is considered to be the work of Angra Mainyu, the embodiment of all that is evil, whereas the earth and all that is beautiful is considered to be the pure work of God. We must not pollute the earth with our remains...
...Athens seaside suburb Tuesday afternoon, some 3,000 people attended the funeral of Andreas-Alexandros Grigoropoulos, whose death sparked the riots. Shortly after the funeral, rioters hurled rocks and oranges at police forces near the cemetery...
...This wasn't like normal flu," says Frank Snowden, Yale University's chair of the history of science and medicine department. "Physicians were horrified by what they saw. People's lungs filled with this terrible frothy fluid. They were literally choking to death. It was ghastly." Symptoms appeared so suddenly that victims sometimes died within just one day. The flu hit World War I soldiers especially hard; some historians believe more soldiers died from the flu than from...
This week at Guantánamo, Khaled Sheik Mohammed and four other defendants in the 9/11 case unexpectedly announced they would make "confessions," in effect pleading guilty. All potentially face the death penalty. Mohammed, who has said he seeks martyrdom, told the judge he had no faith in the Guantánamo trials, in his Pentagon-appointed lawyers or in the judge himself. "I don't trust you," he said, adding, "We don't want to waste time." It is not yet clear whether the defendents' motion will be accepted by the court...