Archive for December, 2009
Santa Muerte…Saint Death Accepts Everyone
13, Dec 2009Devotion to Saint Death William Booth, The Washington Post (December 6, 2009) I don’t really know a lot about Santa Muerte or Saint Death. After I read this article, I remembered seeing the various Santa Muerte statues in Mexican stores but never really thought twice about it. This Washington Post piece brings a whole new [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: anthropology, cults, Mexico, religion, video
No Presidential Condolence for Soldier Suicide
13, Dec 2009A few weeks ago, various news outlets reported the story of Spc. Chancellor Keesling, an American soldier in Iraq who committed suicide. While incidents of suicide among soldiers who are currently active and those returned home is certainly newsworthy, the focus of this particular story was quite different. Although Mr. Keesling received a proper military [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
- Tags: soldier suicide, soldiers
The Rest in Pieces
13, Dec 2009This American Life: How to Rest in Peace originally aired November 2, 2007. There are umpteen TV shows about solving murders, endless whodunits in bookstores. But what happens to the people left behind after the detectives close the case? Three stories about children trying to figure out how to live normally after their parents have [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime|Grief + Mourning|Suicide
- Tags: assisted dying, podcast
Venezuelan Bone Thugs-N-Burglary
12, Dec 2009In Venezuela, Even Death May Not Bring Peace Simon Romero, New York Times (December 10, 2009) Caracas, Venezuela, has long had a bad reputation when it comes to crime: murder, robbery and kidnapping are commonplace ills, as well as crooked cops who cover things up. Criminals are increasingly targeting a new pool of victims — [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Crime
- Tags: corpse abuse, religion
Burial Goes Vertical
8, Dec 2009Aussie Undertakers Turn Funeral Business on Its Head… by Offering to Bury People Upright Foreign News Service, Daily Mail Online (December 7, 2009) Just when you thought there were enough options for final disposition, a company in Melbourne, Australia, invents a trolley that will cart around a corpse then deposit it vertically with minimal blunder [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Eco-Death
- Tags: green burial, vertical burial