Archive for July, 2010
Auction House Drops Elvis Embalming Tools Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune (July 23, 2010) Elvis Embalming Tools Withdrawn By Auction House Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago I know for a fact that many people saw last week’s news item about the instruments used to embalm Elvis Presley going up for sale. I know this because many people [...]
Săpânţa: The Happy Cemetery Dumneazu (July 23, 2010) While grave markers can be creative and downright wacky, most reflect the solemnity of death — just the facts, m’am, perhaps with an accurate but general epitaph, like “Loving wife and mother.” Aren’t they all? And would you really say otherwise if not? The Happy Cemetery in [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Art / Architecture
- Tags: grave markers, memorializing
WNYC Interview on Memorial Tattoos
22, Jul 2010Morbid Ink: Memorial Tattoos Samantha Stark, WNYC radio (July 21, 2010) WNYC radio in New York put together a short piece on Memorial Tattoos, which coincided with my talk on the same subject for Observatory and the Morbid Anatomy Library. Samantha Stark, the WNYC reporter who put the story together, did a really good job [...]
Head of the Household
16, Jul 2010Interesting article in last Sunday’s NY Times Magazine about cryonics; or more to the point, cryonocists and the people who love them. The article is fascinating for the fact that it delves not so much into the science informing cryonic preservation (as our last cryonics post did) but rather, about how differing beliefs about the [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Afterlife|Death + Humor|Death + Technology|Defying Death
- Tags: cryonics
Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo An Illustrated Lecture with Dr. John Troyer, Deputy Director, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath Date: Tuesday July 20th, 2010 Time: 8:00pm Admission: $5 On Tuesday, July 20 I am giving a talk in Brooklyn on memorial tattoos. The talk, Morbid Ink: Field Notes [...]