https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Swedish archeologist has discovered a 3,000-year-old mass grave at the Gebel el-Silsila site in southern Egypt. https://www.thelocal.se/20181215/swedish-archeologist-finds-ancient-mass-grave-in-egypt Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:23:44 +0100 swedish-archeologist-finds-ancient-mass-grave-in-egypt A growing number of Swedes die lacking both money and relatives, meaning their funerals must be paid for by the local council. https://www.thelocal.se/20170520/more-swedes-die-alone-and-with-no-money Sat, 20 May 2017 13:35:06 +0200 more-swedes-die-alone-and-with-no-money The Swedish authorities have demanded that two bodies frozen for over a decade while awaiting a controversial environmentally-friendly burial method should be put to rest without further delay. https://www.thelocal.se/20130424/47524 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:07:00 +0200 47524 It is becoming more common for relatives of deceased Swedes to want to be present at the cremation of their loved ones, but many are unaware that they have the right due to a lack of information. https://www.thelocal.se/20121107/44290 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:33:00 +0100 44290 Pippi the cat, who was believed to have been buried in a mass grave in Malmö against her owner's will, turned up on Friday in the freezer of the local vet. https://www.thelocal.se/20120907/43092 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:46:00 +0200 43092 A Swedish ex-cat owner is furious that her reclusive pet’s ashes were not buried in a private grave, but were rather sent to a mass burial plot in Malmö following a document mix-up. https://www.thelocal.se/20120905/43024 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:39:00 +0200 43024 Twelve dead Swedes who have spent several years in the deep freeze, pending the legalisation of an “environmentally friendly” burial procedure, may be buried against their families’ wishes. https://www.thelocal.se/20120305/39500 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:35:00 +0100 39500 The body of a 90-year-old woman who died four years ago has remained frozen since her death, as her distraught daughter refuses to have her buried before an autopsy can determine the cause of death. https://www.thelocal.se/20120222/39272 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0100 39272 A funeral guest in Örebro, in eastern Sweden, was recently shocked to see a hired transit van park by the crematorium and staff starting to unload several coffins, according to local paper Eskilstuna-Kuriren. https://www.thelocal.se/20110513/33758 Fri, 13 May 2011 13:53:00 +0200 33758 Sweden has the longest waiting periods in the world from death to burial, resulting in a major space shortage at crematoriums. As a result, a crematorium has been forced to expand the freezers to make more room for the dead. https://www.thelocal.se/20100726/27996 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:09:00 +0200 27996 Corpses at the morgue of the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, have started to rot due to a breakdown in procedures related to renovation of the facility. https://www.thelocal.se/20100126/24602 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:00 +0100 24602 A pensioned Church of Sweden pastor has landed himself in hot holy water after performing a burial service for a person who was not a member of the flock. https://www.thelocal.se/20090912/22040 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:34:00 +0200 22040 Swedes are getting larger and this is starting to cause problems post-mortem as coffins are proving too large to fit into cremation ovens. https://www.thelocal.se/20090621/20190 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:15:00 +0200 20190 Police confirm that they have received a wealth of tips and information about the dead baby that went missing from a Stockholm church mortuary prior to burial this week. https://www.thelocal.se/20090424/19056 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:26:00 +0200 19056 A controversy has erupted in Kristianstad in southern Sweden over responsibility for the handling of corpses, resulting in an overflow at the central hospital’s morgue. https://www.thelocal.se/20090109/16812 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:59:00 +0100 16812 A mix-up at a hospital in Karlstad in western Sweden led to relatives holding a burial service for the wrong man. https://www.thelocal.se/20080715/13058 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:32:00 +0200 13058