Oregon's second smallest city had 25 residents during the last census, but an updated headcount is 16. It still has a ...

I yearned for a backhoe. Only after we’d finished the backbreaking labor did I realize what a mistake it would have been to have used one. We buried Basil with his head facing east so that he could ...

Teams of two grave-diggers gathered in Hungary to compete in the annual International Grave Digging Championships.

For three decades, Alan Burke has scanned the cemetery grounds with a metal detector, searching for the precise locations of hidden markers used to stake out graves on hallowed Montauk land. Each time ...

A few jobs are simply outstanding. Others stand out because they're unusual, virtually invisible or incredibly tedious. Most of us go to work five days a week, but just what "work" means has countless ...

A small Hungarian city has hosted the world cup of grave-digging – a contest dedicated to the sombre art of shovelling 6ft ...