Archive for July, 2009
Important Right-to-Die Court Decision in the UK
30, Jul 2009Debbie Purdy wins ‘significant legal victory’ on assisted suicide Afua Hirsch, The Guardian (July 30, 2009) An important turn today for UK Assisted Dying supporters (which is about 62% of the public…). I will let The Guardian newspaper explain: Debbie Purdy has won a significant legal victory in the House of Lords which lawyers are [...]
DeathRef Skelly Approaches Kindle Fame!
29, Jul 2009Hey, everyone! I, your DeathRef warrior Meg, am in a contest at Engadget to win a Kindle with our very own Death Reference Desk ambassador, Mister Studious Skelly, laser-engraved on the back! Anyone can vote on the designs, and the top five designers win the Kindles they’ve created! Please vote for me, Number 3! Yes, [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology
Urn Design Comes to a Head
28, Jul 2009Personal Urns from Cremation Solutions via Chip Chick Death masks are so eighteenth century. Cremation Solutions – purveyor of creative cremains transformations—offer urns that look like the noggin of the dearly departed, or whoever’s head it is you want to be stored in. I am suspicious of company names that boast “solutions,” as that implies [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation|Death + Art / Architecture|Death + Technology
- Tags: cremains, memorializing, urns
Death and Art: Walking on Eggshells by emma PERRY at 50a Contemporary Art Space, Cumbria UK
28, Jul 2009Walking on Eggshells A New Art Exhibition by emma PERRY 50a Contemporary Art Space (and online) South Street Egremont, Cumbria Attention all Death Reference Desk readers in the UK: you do not want to miss the newest art exhibition by emma PERRY. Her newest project, Walking on Eggshells, is a mixed-media installation that critiques modern [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Art / Architecture
Radiolab: After Life… Now with John Troyer!
28, Jul 2009Radiolab: After Life originally aired July 27, 2009. What happens at the moment when we slip from life… to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Afterlife
- Tags: brain death, cardiac death, definition of death, moment of death, podcast