Archive for the ‘Burial’ Category
Shade it Black
25, Jun 2011Earlier this week, NPR ran an interview with Jess Goodell, author of the new memoir Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq. The new book is Goodell’s account of her time as a Marine working in the Mortuary Affairs Unit in Iraq in 2004. Terry Gross interviewed Goodell in a segment entitled Death and [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Burial|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: mortuary science, soldiers
On the Death of Osama Bin Laden
9, May 2011Watery Grave, Murky Law Leor Halevi, New York Times (May 08, 2011) Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea and the history of Shariah. Bin Laden Exits the Scene On the Media, WNYC and National Public Radio (May 06, 2011) It has been one week since President Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden was dead. I [...]
Dead Body and Technology Lecture Tuesday April 19
15, Apr 2011Future Death: The Dead Human Body as Biomass An Illustrated lecture with Dr. John Troyer Deputy Director Centre for Death and Society University of Bath Tuesday, April 19 at 8:00pm Hello Death Reference Desk readers. Next Tuesday, April 19 I am giving a talk in Brooklyn, New York for the Observatory group and the Morbid [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Cemeteries|Cremation|Death + Technology|Eco-Death
- Tags: cremains, green burial, lecture
1,000 Irradiated Dead Bodies in Japan
7, Apr 2011Up to 1,000 Bodies Left Untouched Near Troubled Nuke Plant Kyodo News (March 31, 2011) I started this new post on the aftermath in Japan before today’s announcement that another earthquake had hit the country and that a potential tsunami was forecast. These most recent events will only compound Japan’s problems but they also contribute [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Disaster
- Tags: disease, Japan, mass graves, research
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