Archive for the ‘Death + the Law’ Category
Texas Prisoner Burials Are a Gentle Touch in a Punitive System Manny Fernandez, New York Times (January 05, 2012) At a cemetery in Texas, murderers and other convicts whose bodies are unclaimed can be interred and, for a few moments, remembered. A really interesting article on the cemetery used by Texas prison officials for unclaimed [...]
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
Under Recent Policy, Cook County Begins Donating Unclaimed Bodies after 2 Weeks Cadavers that are left in morgue are given to medical research Becky Schlikerman, William Lee and Ronnie Reese, Chicago Tribune (October 04, 2011) Medical Examiner: Families Who Object to Body Donation Can Opt for Burial Becky Schlikerman, Chicago Tribune (October 05, 2011) There [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Crime|Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, forensics
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
The War On Death
23, Jul 2011Death and Budgets David Brooks, New York Times (July 15, 2011) Much of the budget mess may stem from a deep cultural antipathy toward recognizing our own mortality. The Quagmire: How American Medicine is Destroying Itself Daniel Callahan and Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic (July 15, 2011) Since the American political system (read: mostly [...]