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SxSW Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead Podcast

7, Apr 2013

Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead SxSW Interactive 2013 In March 2013, the Death Reference Desk headed to the South by Southwest Interactive conference. A podcast of Death Ref John’s talk has now been released and you can listen to it below. He was part of presentation called Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead. Here [...]

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Death Ref heads to South by Southwest (SxSW) in Texas

3, Mar 2013

Platforms for Haunting: The Talking Dead South by Southwest Interactive media conference Saturday, March 9 5:00PM – 6:00PM Radisson Town Lake Town Lake Ballroom 111 E Cesar Chavez The Death Reference Desk is headed to the 2013 South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive media conference in Austin, Texas. Doing our best to keep Austin weird! Death [...]

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Six-Degrees of Kevin Bacon Flatlining. Poor sad Billy Mahoney

24, Feb 2013

‘Erasing Death’ Explores The Science Of Resuscitation Fresh Air with Terry Gross (February 20, 2013) Terry Gross, of Fresh Air and National Public Radio fame, did a fascinating interview with Dr. Sam Parnia regarding his new book on human death experiences. I’ll let Fresh Air describe it: What happens when we die? Wouldn’t we all [...]

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  • In: Afterlife|Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics|Suicide
  • Tags: definition of death, moment of death, video
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Reflections on Mass Shootings in America

23, Dec 2012

Packing Protection or Packing Suicide Risk? Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post (July 07, 2008) Seventeen years ago, a couple of criminologists at the University of Maryland published an interesting paper about the 1976 [Washington, D.C.] ban on handguns — a ban that was recently overturned by the Supreme Court on the grounds it was inimical to [...]

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  • In: Death + Crime|Death + Technology|Death + the Law|Grief + Mourning
  • Tags: guns, Suicide, suicide prevention
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Future Death. Future Dead Bodies. Future Cemeteries. TEDx Talk by John Troyer

21, Oct 2012

Future Death. Future Dead Bodies. Future Cemeteries John Troyer, TEDxBristol Talk (September 15, 2012) On September 15, 2012 I was one of the TEDxBristol speakers. The TEDxBristol 2012 theme was Future Shock, so I took the opportunity to discuss three of my favorite topics: Future Death, Future Dead Bodies, and Future Cemeteries. The entire TEDx [...]

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  • In: Cemeteries|Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Eco-Death
  • Tags: bio-cremation, Cemeteries, death with dignity, funerals, lecture, QR codes, TED talk, video
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