Archive for October, 2011
My good friend Juanita Garciagodoy died on Thursday, October 27, 2011. She was 59. In July 2009, Juanita told me via e-mail that she had breast cancer and that it had metastasized. This was at the same time that the Death Reference Desk launched. I had sent Juanita a rather silly message about why she [...]
- By: John
- In: Grief + Mourning
- Tags: memorial tattoos, obituaries, tattooing
On the Death of Animals
23, Oct 2011At-Home Pet Euthanasia Grows in Popularity Steve Hendrix, Washington Post (September 26, 2011) National Public Radio: Do Animals Grieve? Barbara J. King, National Public Radio (October 20, 2011) This past week I spent some time thinking about animals and death. As the bengal tigers, brown bears and lions were shot to death in Zanesville, Ohio [...]
- By: John
- In: Grief + Mourning|Uncategorized
- Tags: pets
Under Recent Policy, Cook County Begins Donating Unclaimed Bodies after 2 Weeks Cadavers that are left in morgue are given to medical research Becky Schlikerman, William Lee and Ronnie Reese, Chicago Tribune (October 04, 2011) Medical Examiner: Families Who Object to Body Donation Can Opt for Burial Becky Schlikerman, Chicago Tribune (October 05, 2011) There [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, forensics