Archive for July, 2009
Free Public Talk: Death and Memorial Tattooing When: Wednesday, July 29, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Where: West Bank Social Center, 501 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis 55454 (above the Nomad World Pub) Description: Dr. John Troyer, from the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society, talks about memorial tattoos for both humans and pets. This talk [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Art / Architecture|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: lecture, memorial tattoos
More bodies go unclaimed as families can’t afford funeral costs Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times (July 21, 2009) This LA Times article (sent to me by my friend Karyn) is a sad and predictable explanation of how the American economic recession is affecting the poor. In a nutshell, next of kin do not have the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + the Economy|Death Ethics
Home is Where the Dead Body Is
21, Jul 2009Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative Katie Zezima, New York Times (July 21, 2009) Tuesday’s New York Times featured a front page article — FRONT PAGE — on people who choose home burials for a deceased love one. Economic concerns are given as a key reason for any upsurge in home burials, because they do [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, funeral homes, home burial
Condo Columbaria? Mountain View Cemetery
19, Jul 2009On July 11, 2009, Mountain View Cemetery—Vancouver, British Columbia’s only graveyard—invited the public to an open house to showcase its new buildings and columbaria. On-the-spot grave look-ups, four different cemetery tours, Chinese joss paper demonstrations, a string quartet, harpist and free popcorn all made for a pleasant day for cemetery boosters, curious potential customers and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Art / Architecture
- Tags: columbaria, photos, tours
Re-thinking the Definition of Death in Canada
18, Jul 2009Ethicist Seeks Law to Say When Dead Is Truly Dead Tom Blackwell, National Post (July 16, 2009) How and when an individual is determined to be dead is a persistent bio-ethical, medical, and philosophical debate. I came across this article on the debate in Canada and I think that it highlights a common set of [...]