A Swiss company wants to change the way people mourn by transforming the remains of their loved ones into gems.

Southampton University scientists have found evidence that awareness can continue for at least several minutes after clinical death which was previously thought impossible

The horrific execution of Clayton Lockett by lethal injection this spring in Oklahoma took an astonishing 43 minutes to complete. Together with other botched killings, the incident has focused attention on the inexperience and incompetence that now accompanies many executions in America.

They can fly through walls or circle the planets, turn into pure light or meet long-dead relatives. Many have blissful experiences of universal love. Most do not want to return to the living. When they do, they're often endowed with special powers: They can predict the future or intuit people's thoughts.

For all the effort they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with their own death

 A 3-year-old girl, who was clinically pronounced dead woke on Sunday during her funeral service in a church in Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, police said.