Archive for January, 2010
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010 Funeral Webcasting – Can’t Attend a Memorial Service?
FuneralResources.com
via The Consumerist, “Now You Can Attend Funerals Live Over the Internet”
Laura Northrup at the Consumerist recently blogged about funeral webcasting with this video from Chris Hill at FuneralResources.com. Weirdly, the vid seems aimed at those in need of services for loved ones while the accompanying webpage [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting
The Last Post on Haiti’s Dead
27, Jan 2010In Haiti, A Proper Burial is in Short Supply
Frances Robles, Nadege Charles and Elinor J. Breche, Miami Herald (January 25, 2010)
This will be the last post, for a while, on the dead bodies in Haiti. I decided to run this Miami Herald article because it does a good job of summing up the problems the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial| Death + Disaster
- Tags: death and smell, Haiti Earthquake
Open Air Cremations UK Style
26, Jan 2010Funeral Pyres judgment Reserved
BBC News (January 18, 2010)
Hindu Fights for Open-Air Cremation
UKPA (January 17, 2010)
Last week, a really interesting and potentially important court case appeared before a British Appeals Court. A British Hindu man, Davender Ghai, wants permission from the Newcastle City government to have his body cremated on an open air pyre.
Here is [...]
- By: John
- In: Afterlife| Cremation| Death + the Law
- Tags: religion
Aurora Casket Company Trying to Stop Cremations with Video
R. Brian Burkhardt, YourFuneralGuy (January 25, 2010)
YourFuneralGuy just found a gem: it seems the Aurora Casket Company, one of the big three casket manufacturers in the United States, made a video of a mock funeral for direct cremation, the very villain encroaching on and slowly killing [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Cremation| Death + Humor| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: mock funerals, video