Archive for March, 2011
Warner to Introduce Bill to Revoke Reserved Plots at Arlington Christian Davenport, The Washington Post (March 30, 2011) A quick update on Arlington National Cemetery and its ongoing problems. The lead didn’t necessarily get buried in this most recent article from the Washington Post but the entire Arlington debacle just got a lot more interesting. [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
Japan Begins Mass Burials
24, Mar 2011Hasty Burial for the Dead Collides With Tradition Michael Wines, The New York Times (March 24, 2011) Families of the tsunami’s victims faced a mass burial in a seaport town in northeast Japan, where mathematical reality has made cremation impossible. 99%. That is the number which kept going through my head when I saw the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Disaster
- Tags: disease, Haiti Earthquake, Japan, mass graves, research
Arlington Cemetery Debacle Gets Worse and Worse
21, Mar 2011Arlington Cemetery Struggles with Old Reservations Christian Davenport, The Washington Post (March 21, 2011) Officials at Arlington National Cemetery — still unable to fully account for who is buried where at the nation’s premier military resting place — are struggling to determine who has reserved plots and whether some of those grave sites are already [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Arlington Cemetery, corpse abuse, soldiers
The Bereaved Consumer’s Bill of Rights Act of 2011
20, Mar 2011We’ve seen some pretty nasty cemetery abuses in recent months, from Burr Oak to Arlington. Nancy in Texas tipped off the Death Reference Desk about a new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that will hopefully prevent some anguish and anger in the not-quite-as-horrifically-egregious-as-outright-corpse-abuse-scandal arena but the still important — and affecting many more [...]
Suicide Tourism
18, Mar 2011The Suicide Tourist Frontline (March 22, 2011) On March 22, 2011, Frontline will re-broadcast its brilliant documentary The Suicide Tourist. This is an exceptionally well done documentary (even for Frontline) and it captures the end of one man’s life, Craig Ewert, with an unflinching gaze. I watched it last year. Unfortunately, the website version of [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity, Dignitas, video