Archive for September, 2010
Skyscraper Burial in Mumbai
29, Sep 2010Vertical Cemetery is a Greenery Clad Final Resting Place for Mumbai Yuka Yoneda, Inhabit.com (September 28, 2010) We’ve posted before about vertical burial — that is, placing corpses in upright containers for burial in the ground standing up. The proposed Moksha Tower in Mumbai takes this concept to a whole new level by providing burial [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Death + Art / Architecture|Eco-Death
- Tags: religion, vertical burial
Unexplained Deaths in the Diorama Dollhouse
28, Sep 2010Of Dolls and Murder Bruce Goldfarb, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! (September 25, 2010) Thrill Spy International Thriller and Spy Film Festival Washington, DC (September 30 – October 03, 2010) This is a Death Reference Desk post which begins in December 2007. At that time, I was contacted by Minneapolis based filmmaker and writer Susan Marks [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: films, video
2 Bodies Found in Wrong Plots at Arlington Cemetery Christian Davenport, Washington Post (September 15, 2010) Arlington National Cemetery officials discovered that two people were buried in the wrong plots after exhuming their remains last month, an Army official confirmed Tuesday. More Details Emerge about Bodies Buried in Wrong Arlington Plots Christian Davenport, Washington Post [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Digital Death Day: London Calling
19, Sep 2010Digital Death Day London Saturday, October 9th 9am-5pm Centre for Creative Collaboration University of London 16 Acton Street (King’s Cross Station) WC1X 9NG London Last May, Meg wrote up a really interesting piece on a Digital Death Day un-conference in California. That post, Digital Death Day is Every Day, is part of Death Ref’s ongoing [...]
It’s My Way or Highway (to Hell). Neither O.K.
12, Sep 2010Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals Reuters, Melbourne. September 10, 2010 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. A time to [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Funeral Industry|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: memorializing