Archive for June, 2009
Prone Burials: Mortifying the Dead
24, Jun 2009Buried Face Down: Prone Burials Current Archaeology, v.20(231), June 2009 Via National Geographic News Face-down burial has long been regarded with a knee-jerk, not-right, benefiting-the-doubt reaction. Across cultures and through time, experts and laity alike have assumed prone burials to be accidents or the result of post-interment disturbances. Following an extensive survey of documented prone [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial
- Tags: anthropology, research
John vs. Dead Bodies vs. Brooklyn
24, Jun 2009Our own esteemed professor of death, John Troyer, expounds on what else, dead bodies, at a lecture near you, if near you happens to be New York. “Bodies Embalmed by Us NEVER TURN BLACK!”: A Brief History of the Hyperstimulated Human Corpse Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009 Time: 7:30 PM Admission: Free @ the Observatory, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology
- Tags: lecture
UK National Funeral Exhibition Photos
18, Jun 2009The biennial NFE — a joy to behold, especially should you appreciate marketing in sheep’s clothing.
- By: John
- In: Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, photos
No Next of Kin
17, Jun 2009A Certain Kind of Death (2003). Blue Hadaegh and Grover Babcock New York: Wellspring. DVD / VHS documentary. http://www.acertainkindofdeath.com Find in a library What happens if you die and there are no friends, no family, no spouse — no one — to dispose of your body, arrange your funeral, attend to your personal effects or [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Cremation|Death + the Law
- Tags: films, unclaimed bodies
http://www.nationalfuneralexhibition.co.uk/
- By: John
- In: Funeral Industry