A 77-year-old man was crushed to death in October while visiting his parents’ gravesite at the St. Gregoire Cemetery in Buckingham, Quebec, when a tombstone fell on him.
And in November, a 67-year-old woman was killed in southern Brazil on her way to the cemetery following her husband’s funeral. She was a front-seat passenger in the hearse when another vehicle collided with it, slamming her husband’s coffin forward and crushing the woman’s skull.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.