Archive for June, 2009
Michael Jackson Set to Be Embalmed at the O2 Centre after Missing the Deadline for Cryogenic Freezing
Mail on Sunday (June 26, 2009)
It looks like Michael Jackson might get his world tour after all — or at least a perpetual stream of curious fans trotting past his moonwalking corpse. The day following the singer’s sudden death, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, cryonics, plastination
Cannabis Corpse
26, Jun 2009The AP reported that on Monday, police discovered 70 marijuana plants in the attic of the Helena Funeral Chapel. I didn’t intend to post this because eh, it’s Montana — who’s surprised, and who cares? Lo and behold, a couple of days later in Dallas, 100 pounds of pot were discovered in a casket [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime| Death + Humor
- Tags: coffins, funeral homes
Cairo’s City of the Dead (…and Living) Face Eviction
26, Jun 2009Razing the City of the Dead to Breathe New Life into Cairo
Matt Bradley, The National, Abu Dhabi (June 18, 2009)
“Living around the Dead Helps Me See How We Will End Up. It Makes Me Feel Closer to God”
Matt Bradley, The National, Abu Dhabi (June 18, 2009)
Imagine you and all your neighbors being evicted from your [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries
- Tags: living with the dead
Funeral Procession, er, I mean Promession
24, Jun 2009“Natural burial is what we have been doing for millennia. People may be leery of this new fandangled technology.”
- Janet McCausland, Executive Director of the Toronto-based Natural Burial Association
Eco-this, eco-that. Seems everybody wants to “go green” these days—even in death. I say, why not? It’s the last good deed you can do for the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Burial| Funeral Industry
- Tags: green burial, promession
Funeral Home Moves, Forgets Corpse in Casket
24, Jun 2009A woman dead for several years traveled with a relocating funeral home around San Antonio, Texas, as the undertaker awaited payment from an indigent family. The last time Forest Park Funeral Home moved, the body was left behind in a shed. New reports suggest she was supposed to be cremated in 2006.
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Economy| Death Ethics
- Tags: funeral homes, video, wayward bodies