Archive for October, 2009
The Weird Book Room
24, Oct 2009The Weird Book Room has a little something for everyone. As part of the larger AbeBooks.com, this little corner of the website offers titles you may or may not find in your local library, neighborhood bookstore or even the thrift store around the corner. Most are downright obscure—and probably out-of-print to boot in many cases. [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Humor
- Tags: books
Minnesota Historical Society Funerary Objects Matt Anderson, MNHS Curator (October 19, 2009) Just in time for Halloween. The Minnesota Historical Society presents the following video on Funerary Objects from its own collection. Many state historical societies have these kinds of objects in storage. It’s always interesting to see how they present them and when. Halloween, [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, video
No Tittering of Mourning Magpies
21, Oct 2009Magpies Hold Funerals for Fallen Feathered Friends Lester Haines, The Register (October 21, 2009) Animal Emotions, Wild Justice and Why They Matter: Grieving Magpies, a Pissy Baboon, and Empathic Elephants (paid access only) Marc Berkoff, Emotion, Space and Society (August 27, 2009; doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2009.08.001) Reporting on an unfortunately toll-access article from the journal Emotion, Space and [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Biology|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: animals, memorializing, research
Witness for the Execution
21, Oct 2009One Reporter’s Lonely Beat, Witnessing Executions Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times (October 20, 2009) The NY Times ran an interesting article yesterday about an AP reporter who has witnessed more executions than any other person in America. His name is Michael Graczyk and since the 1980′s, he has seen over 300 executions in Texas, although [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law
- Tags: capital punishment, moment of death
Hot Human on Dinosaur Action…with Pictures
19, Oct 2009The Death Reference Desk’s good friend Joanna Ebenstein at the Morbid Anatomy Library in Brooklyn is into the hipper, cooler, creepier side of dead stuff. That’s why Death Ref likes her so much. So when Joanna invited me to give a talk on Monday, October 26 at the Morbid Anatomy Library I said YES YES [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: lecture