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91 Year Old’s Pennsylvania Corpse Abuse Case is Complicated

8, Jul 2010

Widow Lives with Corpses of Husband, Twin Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 05, 2010) DA: Woman can Keep Corpses in Crypt Michael Rubinkam, The Associated Press (July 07, 2010) No charges yet for disinterring her kin I am going to guess that more than a few people saw this story earlier in the week. [...]

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  • By: John
  • In: Burial|Death + Crime|Death + the Law
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Bodies Misidentified at Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC

10, Jun 2010

Army: Bodies Misidentified at Arlington Cemetery Anne Flaherty and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press (June 10, 2010) This is a breaking story which I just got from the Washington Post via the Associated Press. In short, an investigation at the Arlington National Cemetery has revealed that despite strict protocol for US military funerals and burial, the [...]

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  • In: Burial|Cemeteries
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Washing the Dead for Jewish Funerals

30, Mar 2010

Jewish Burial Practices Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS (February 6th, 2004) Last week on the Death Reference Desk I wrote about American Muslims washing the dead body before a funeral. A friend from graduate school, Jakki, saw the post and sent me a fantastic PBS segment on the Jewish tradition of washing the dead. Jakki [...]

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Washing the Dead for Muslim Funerals

25, Mar 2010

The Washing: In the Muslim Custom of Bathing the Dead, She Found a Deep Sense of Reward — and Shaved off 40 Sins Reshma Memon Yaqub, The Washington Post (March 21, 2010) Modern human migration has created a real dilemma for the first, second, and third generations of immigrant children. When a relative dies, many [...]

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Premature Burial Device Patents

2, Feb 2010

Brace yourself for some library science / classification / database search nerdery… or skip below to see a list of U.S. patents related to premature burial! This morning I ran across a list of suspected premature burials with some interesting contemporaneous newspaper clips (it also links to How to Survive If You Are Buried Alive [...]

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  • By: Meg Holle
  • In: Burial|Death + Technology|Death + the Law
  • Tags: coffins, patents, premature burial, research
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