Archive for September, 2009
Death: The Final Frontier
30, Sep 2009 A Geek Funeral
kdawson, Slashdot.org (September 29, 2009)
While the obsessively geekerrific can always go for the deluxe Star Trek casket or urn, I rather enjoy this gutted SPARCstation-turned-urn engraved with classic Trekkie nerdery, submitted to Slashdot by reader Sam_In_The Hills for his late brother:
At the memorial service, friends and family scrawled kind thoughts and remembrances [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor| Death + Technology| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: memorializing, urns
Save a Mango Tree: Incinerate Amma in Cow Dung
29, Sep 2009 Cow Dung Cremations Catch On in Bihar
Amarnath Tewary, BBC News (September 27, 2009)
Ongoing floods and a subsequent depletion of mango trees, the traditional cremation fuel for the people of Bihar, India, has led to the use of cow dung in funeral pyres. Readily available and culturally acceptable (coming from a sacred animal, and all), [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation| Death Ethics| Eco-Death
- Tags: green burial
Stephen Colbert Discusses Dead Bodies Having Sex
22, Sep 2009Body Worlds Plans Cadaver Sex Exhibit
Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report (September 16, 2009)
Oh Gunther von Hagens, you are the gift that just keeps on giving and giving and giving to the Death Reference Desk. But this time, dearest Dr. von Hagens, you have truly achieved a pop-cultural milestone. None other than Stephen Colbert, he of [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Humor| Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: corpse abuse, plastination, video
- By: Kim
- In: Cemeteries| Death + Technology| Death + the Web
- Tags: digital archiving