'cemetery' - tagged features

In the region of Maramures, people are very relaxed about death. When they die, they’re buried in what’s called a "Merry Cemetery", where wooden crosses are painted blue and the epitaphs written on them are often amusing. For the villagers of Sapanta a life can be summed up in a few humorous rhymed verses. Radio Romania International's Iulian Muresan made the journey to find out more for Network Europe. 

Paris has some of the world's most interesting cemeteries with the great and good in every other tomb: John paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the Montparnasse cemetery; Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and Jim Morrison in Pere Lachaise; Francois Truffaut in Montmatre - the list goes on and these villages of the dead are tourist attractions in themselves. Illustriously filled cemeteries are one thing, but in the north of Paris you find the oldest animal cemetery in the world. Dogs, cats, and even birds and horses are buried at the Cimetiere des Chiens de Asnieres. And it's not just little old ladies who lay their white poodles to rest there. RFI's Sarah Elzas reports