Archive for the ‘Death + the Web’ Category
For all our morbid bent and grave humor, plenty warms our hearts at the Death Reference Desk. Personally I (Meg) am a stickler for serendipity and random acts of stranger kindness, especially when it involves the internet and otherwise impossible interactions. This week the cardiac warm fuzzies involve… hey! us! all starting with a post [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Web
- Tags: grave markers
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Value-added Tombstone
22, May 2011What’s the next best thing to placing flowers on your loved one’s grave marker? Teddy bears? Mylar balloons? Thanks to technology, those items are now passe. The latest way for you to pay your respects is via the QR code. The what?? A recent article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press discusses how Rochester (MN)-based [...]
“What About Morals?”
4, Apr 2011An instant was all it took to post the photo. The photo I am referring to is the one taken by Mark Musarella. In March of 2009, Musarella—a then retired police officer and EMT from Staten Island, NY—snapped a photo of the beaten and strangled body of Caroline Wimmer in her apartment and posted it [...]