Archive for the ‘Death + Technology’ Category
Seattle Librarians Tackle Mummy Eating
8, Mar 2010The Seattle Public Library “Shelf Talk” blog posts questions of the month, answered by their reference librarians. March’s curiosity happens to deal with death: the ancient practice of munching on ground up mummies for their alleged curative powers.
See what they have to say!
(Thanks to librarian/archivist friend of DeathRef @leahpearse for passing this along!)
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- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology
- Tags: medicine, mummies, superstition
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 [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Burial| Death + Technology| Death + the Law
- Tags: coffins, patents, premature burial, research
TiVo Grief with Funeral Webcasting
29, Jan 2010 Funeral Webcasting – Can’t Attend a Memorial Service?
FuneralResources.com
via The Consumerist, “Now You Can Attend Funerals Live Over the Internet”
Laura Northrup at the Consumerist recently blogged about funeral webcasting with this video from Chris Hill at FuneralResources.com. Weirdly, the vid seems aimed at those in need of services for loved ones while the accompanying webpage [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Technology| Death + the Web| Funeral Industry
- Tags: funerals, video, webcasting
Discards
24, Nov 2009The euthanasia of unwanted cats and dogs is a regular occurrence the world over. However, in Japan, it takes on epic proportions. The voracious appetite of the Japanese for all things cute, fluffy and designer has spawned one of the worst adoption/destruction ratios anywhere. Whereas, in the United States about half of the animals in [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Popular Culture| Death + Technology
- Tags: euthanasia, Japan, pets