Archive for November, 2009
How to Marry A Dead Person…ROCK SOLID.
18, Nov 2009French woman marries dead partner Lizzy Davies, The Guardian (November 17, 2009) Over the weekend, I posted an article about how the Governor of Rhode Island vetoed a bill that would have granted same-sex partners legal claims for final disposition of a dead body. This is only an issue because same-sex marriage isn’t legal. Once [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law
- Tags: LGBT, same-sex partners
R.I. governor vetoes ‘domestic partners’ burial bill Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal, (November 10, 2009) When a person dies, his or her body needs to be claimed by the next of kin. If no kin can be found, then that dead body is handled by local authorities. The legal question of who (or whom) qualifies [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: civil rights, LGBT, same-sex partners, unclaimed bodies
Dead Man Walking….Into His Own Funeral
9, Nov 2009Dead wrong: Man attends own funeral after mix-up over body’s ID On the holiday known as the Day of the Dead, a Brazilian bricklayer walked into his own funeral. It sounds like the beginning of a joke: So a guy walks into his own funeral….but apparently it wasn’t so funny for the friends and relatives [...]
This is What It Sounds Like When Avatars Die…
7, Nov 2009Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches Chris V. Nicholson, The New York Times (November 02, 2009) I am not an online gamer so I don’t have any experience with the bazillions of virtual worlds inhabited every day by living people. That said, it’s impossible to spend any time online these days without hearing about World [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death + the Web
- Tags: digital assets, games, memorializing, video
We Need to Die
3, Nov 2009Nice Opinion piece in today’s NY Times laying out some fundamental philosophical underpinnings of life and death. It is titled “Happy Ending” and is written by Todd May, a professor of philosophy at Clemson University. May is the author of 10 books including “The Philosophy of Foucault” and “Death”. This is the last in a [...]