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  2. 'Extreme Cheapskates': Woman collects dead people's clothes

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    On "Extreme Cheapskates," a woman took her love of finding vintage clothes to a whole new level. Lydia has been what she calls "funeral tracking" for six years now to acquire vintage clothes from ...

  3. Memory jug - Wikipedia

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    Memory Jug with Finial, in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A memory jug is an African American folk art form that memorializes the dead. It is a general term for a vessel whose surface is adorned with an assortment of broken china, glass shards, and small objects, especially items associated with a dead person.

  4. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Candlelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause. [5] Cemeteries is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. Cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere ...

  5. Embalming - Wikipedia

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    Pottery, dishes, and other miscellaneous items from the embalming cache of Tutankhamun. While the term embalming is used for both ancient and modern methods of preserving a deceased person, there is very little connection between the modern-day practices of embalming and ancient methods in terms of techniques or final aesthetic results.

  6. Widower fulfills his late wife's wish on 'Antiques Roadshow'

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  7. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    Treasure trove is property that consists of coins or currency hidden by the owner. To be considered treasure trove and not mislaid property, the property must have been deliberately hidden or concealed, and sufficiently long ago that the original owner can be considered dead or not discoverable. For example, under historic English law, one ...

  8. US recovers $31 million in Social Security payments that went ...

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    The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in Social Security payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the ...

  9. Haunted Collector - Wikipedia

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    People claim to have seen the ghosts of a colonial woman and a little girl in the basement. Also, a male guest staying in Room 10 on the third floor is alleged to have disappeared in the 1970s. Later, the team investigates the 1881 King House in Mayport Village, Florida , where a relative of John King was brutally murdered with a pitchfork ...