Archive for the ‘Death + Popular Culture’ Category
“Last Words” Scholarly at Last
23, Aug 2010Last Words of Notable People William B. Brahms. (2010). 680 pages. Haddonfield, NJ: Reference Desk Press. ISBN: 978-09765325-2-1 Press kit with sample pages (PDF) Order from Amazon The DRD was kindly offered a review copy of this book to be released in September 2010. DeathRef librarian Meg Holle took it to task, after a survey [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: books, last words, research
Cemeteries: More than Just Gloom and Doom
18, Aug 2010To Attract Future Customers, Cemeteries Hold Parties to Die For Graveyards Plan Concerts, Sky-Diving, Clowns; ‘Meet Us Before You Need Us’ Araby Williams, Wall Street Journal Multimedia Producer and Stephanie Simon, The Wall Street Journal (August 12, 2010) The Wall Street Journal ran this short video on cemeteries working to attract a wider audience. This [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: celebrity death, funerals, marketing, video
Valerie’s New York interview with John Troyer on Memorial Tattoos WOR 710 AM (August 4, 2010) Here is the link for the radio interview I did on with Valerie Smaldone on Valerie’s New York . I start discussing Memorial Tattoos about 17:30 minutes into the interview. The piece before me is on an event promoter [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: lecture, memorial tattoos, memorializing
Auction House Drops Elvis Embalming Tools Andy Grimm, Chicago Tribune (July 23, 2010) Elvis Embalming Tools Withdrawn By Auction House Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago I know for a fact that many people saw last week’s news item about the instruments used to embalm Elvis Presley going up for sale. I know this because many people [...]
Plain or Fancy?
4, Jul 2010Seems like funerals or memorial services are either getting simpler or more complex these days. Green burials and simple home rituals are gaining momentum, but so are high end funeral extravaganzas that spare no expense. In an article that appeared in yesterday’s U.K.-based Independent newspaper, “the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof [...]