Archive for January, 2010
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010Funeral 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting
Mr. Freeze
28, Jan 2010The January 25 issue of the New Yorker features an amusing article about cryopreservation of bodies, a.k.a. cryogenics or cryonics. The article doesn’t so much shed light on the science of this controversial procedure; but rather, it spotlights Robert C.W. Ettinger, one of the founders of the cryonics movement. The ninety-one year old Ettinger gives [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Defying Death
- Tags: books, cryonics, immortality
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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Cremation|Death + Humor|Death + the Web|Funeral Industry
- Tags: mock funerals, video