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Archive for July, 2010

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Happy First Birthday, DeathRef!

9, Jul 2010

Believe it or not, the Death Reference Desk officially launched a year ago last July (with some content seeded in June to get us started). Gadzooks! It all started when death and dying practices professor John approached librarian Meg about setting up a site where he could post death-related news links that he would otherwise [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Death + the Web
  • Tags: Facebook, lecture, twitter
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91 Year Old’s Pennsylvania Corpse Abuse Case is Complicated

8, Jul 2010

Widow Lives with Corpses of Husband, Twin Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 05, 2010) DA: Woman can Keep Corpses in Crypt Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 07, 2010) No charges yet for disinterring her kin I am going to guess that more than a few people saw this story earlier in the week. [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Burial|Death + Crime|Death + the Law
  • Tags: corpse abuse, living with the dead
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Kites and Hungry Ghosts Await at Mountain View

5, Jul 2010

Mountain View Cemetery Summer Open House Sunday, July 11, 2010 | 11am – 3pm | 39th & Fraser St. | Vancouver, BC Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, BC, invites you to its open house, er, cemetery next Sunday to explore and experience “award winning architecture, kites, tours, and hungry ghosts.” I attended last year (and [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Cemeteries
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Plain or Fancy?

4, Jul 2010

Seems like funerals or memorial services are either getting simpler or more complex these days. Green burials and simple home rituals are gaining momentum, but so are high end funeral extravaganzas that spare no expense. In an article that appeared in yesterday’s U.K.-based Independent newspaper, “the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof [...]

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  • By: Kim
  • In: Death + Popular Culture|Funeral Industry|Monuments + Memorials
  • Tags: celebrity death, funerals, green burial
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Legacy for Hire

4, Jul 2010

A recent post by Idle Words blog caught my eye. It’s about the unscrupulous practices of Legacy.com, the back end machinery behind obituary notices in newspapers across the country, including, but not limited to, the venerable NY Times. Idle Words did a little research (which Boing Boing then posted) to uncover exactly what’s going on [...]

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  • By: Kim
  • In: Death + the Web|Death Ethics
  • Tags: memorializing, obituaries, online memorials
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