Archive for February, 2012
Nuts and Bolts! Nuts and Bolts! Dead Bodies Rule!
22, Feb 2012The Afterlife of Artificial Hips and Knees Clark Boyd and Rob Hugh-Jones PRI’s The World via BBC News (February 21, 2012) The metal used in surgical implants can be melted down and recycled after people are cremated, and these days it often is. Long time readers of the Death Reference Desk might remember this August [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Eco-Death
- Tags: bioethics, cremains, green burial
Bristol Live Open Platform (BLOP Festival) The Arnolfini, Bristol (UK) Saturday 25 February, 2012 11.00am – 8.00pm £6.00 / £5.00 concessions Full BLOP Festival Schedule John Erik Troyer, Ph.D. performs at 2:45pm on February 25 We here at the Death Reference Desk are always full of surprises. So it should come as no shock that [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: lecture
The Facebook Show On The Media, WNYC Public Radio (February 03, 2012) An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a “Like.” Living Online After Death Faces Nebraska Legal Battle BBC News (January 31, 2012) WNYC’s On the [...]