Archive for the ‘Death + Popular Culture’ Category
Poor Dead Steve Jobs May Not Own His Dead Image
15, Jan 2012Who Owns You Image After You Die? On the Media (January 13, 2012) Really interesting radio story by WNYC’s On the Media programme on what happens to an individual’s ‘image’ after he or she dies. Here is the set-up: A Chinese toy maker is set to release a Steve Jobs action figure next month, but [...]
Dead Drunk Funeral Freebies for NYE
31, Dec 2011Free Funerals for Drunk Drivers Jerry Carnes, 11Alive (December 29, 2009) Note from the Death Reference Desk: This is one of our favorite past NYE posts. Unfortunately, the McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome, GA is no longer offering this deal. Too bad, really. Happy New Year to one and all! A public [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Humor|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law
- Tags: video
Unexplained Dollhouse Deaths in LONDON
27, Nov 2011Of Dolls and Murder UK Premier Horse Hospital in London (November 30, 2011) “Of Dolls & Murder”: The World’s First True Crime Puppet Show Colin Covert, Star Tribune (September 27, 2011) Of Dolls and Murder Bruce Goldfarb, Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! (September 25, 2010) This is a Death Reference Desk post which begins in December [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: films, forensics, video
10 Years
18, Sep 2011This American Life In this show, we return to people who’ve been on This American Life in the last ten years, whose lives were drastically altered by 9/11, including Hyder Akbar, an Afghan-American teen who moved to Afghanistan after his father was tapped to become governor of Kunar province there. On the Media Ten years [...]
Yes, He Sold Fakes. They Are Supposed to Be Fake. Jeffrey E. Singer and Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times (August 24, 2011) Paper imitations of luxury items are traditional at Chinese funerals as gifts for the dead, but a seller of cardboard handbags was arrested on copyright-infringement charges on Tuesday. Ok ok. So the [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Death + Crime|Death + Popular Culture|Death + the Law
- Tags: China, cremains, Cremation, funerals