And other stories from the stranger side of life
12 Mar 2021
A priest in Ireland accidentally incorporated the work of a grime artist into a mass live-streamed from Kincasslagh and Burtonport parish in County Donegal. In his opening blessing, Father Pat Ward played the song by the artist Black the Ripper. On realising his error he said: “Black the Ripper ... A wee bit of rap in the morning, wakes you up. I hope that didn’t do anybody’s blood pressure any difficulty there.”
Firm turns corpses into compost
A new business is transforming human bodies into compost before sending it to loved ones. The boss, Micah Truman, left his lucrative career in finance after discovering that it was legal to compost human bodies in Washington state. Return Home turns corpses into compost by mixing the remains with wood chips, water, heat, sawdust and alfalfa to rapidly increase decomposition.