Archive for the ‘Burial’ Category
Happy Homecoming for Widow Who Lived with Corpses Authorities found out and took the embalmed corpses away. She is having a mausoleum built on her property to get them back. Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press (January 04, 2011) A quick update on the July story about 91-year-old Jean Stevens in Pennsylvania. Stevens, many people will recall, [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Crime|Death + the Law
- Tags: corpse abuse, living with the dead
Jewish Burial Gets Back to the Roots
14, Dec 2010Reviving a Ritual of Tending to the Dead Paul Vitello, The New York Times (December 13, 2010) A new generation of Jewish volunteers is learning how to prepare a body for burial using techniques that attend to “the feelings of the dead.” It has been a good year for people who want to re-discover the [...]
- By: John
- In: Afterlife|Burial
- Tags: anthropology, green burial, religion
Green Burial: A Review
8, Oct 2010Eco-friendly or “green” burial methods and practices are the hot topic in the funeral industry and mortuary sciences these days. Everywhere you turn, there is a new book, article or news report on the subject. There is even a Green Burial Council, which touts itself as “an independent, tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Burial|Cemeteries|Death + Popular Culture|Eco-Death|Funeral Industry
- Tags: green burial
Skyscraper Burial in Mumbai
29, Sep 2010Vertical Cemetery is a Greenery Clad Final Resting Place for Mumbai Yuka Yoneda, Inhabit.com (September 28, 2010) We’ve posted before about vertical burial — that is, placing corpses in upright containers for burial in the ground standing up. The proposed Moksha Tower in Mumbai takes this concept to a whole new level by providing burial [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial|Death + Art / Architecture|Eco-Death
- Tags: religion, vertical burial
Prepare for Death and Follow Me…into Outer Space
12, Sep 2010Death In Space Mary Roach, Boing Boing (September 02, 2010) Wherever living humans go, the possibility of dead human bodies follows. It is the fullest expression of mortality’s inherent fragility. So, when humans finally travel into space for extended periods of time without the luxury of a quickish return to Earth, dead body contingencies need [...]