Archive for the ‘Death + Disaster’ Category
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
Bye Bye Birdies
10, Jan 2011The recent spate of mass bird deaths has taken flight across the Internet—a literal and figurative tweeting and Twittering—and dare I say crowing—on a large scale. You could say it’s causing quite a “flap.” Reported by the Associated Press, the Daily Mail and others, masses of birds have been mysteriously falling from the sky in [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Disaster|Death + Humor
- Tags: animals, mysterious deaths
The Last Post on Haiti’s Dead
27, Jan 2010In Haiti, A Proper Burial is in Short Supply Frances Robles, Nadege Charles and Elinor J. Breche, Miami Herald (January 25, 2010) This will be the last post, for a while, on the dead bodies in Haiti. I decided to run this Miami Herald article because it does a good job of summing up the [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Disaster
- Tags: death and smell, Haiti Earthquake
Envisioning the Death Toll in Haiti
22, Jan 2010Haiti’s Many Troubles Keep Bodies Uncounted Simon Romero and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times (January 21, 2010) Haiti quake toll ‘may be 200,000′ BBC News (January 18, 2010) I have a hunch that for years to come, the final death toll in Haiti will remain unknown. As the tagline for the above New York Times [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Disaster
- Tags: Haiti Earthquake