Archive for the ‘Grief + Mourning’ Category
On the Media: Updating Your Social Media After You Die WNYC Public Radio (March 23, 2012) With social media, so much of our interactions with the world now live online, even after we may not be living at all. Brooke talks to James Norris, the founder of the website Deadsocial about prolonging social media relationships [...]
The Facebook Show On The Media, WNYC Public Radio (February 03, 2012) An Austrian man who got Facebook to give him everything they had on him, a writer whose rapist friended her on Facebook, the value of a “Like.” Living Online After Death Faces Nebraska Legal Battle BBC News (January 31, 2012) WNYC’s On the [...]
My good friend Juanita Garciagodoy died on Thursday, October 27, 2011. She was 59. In July 2009, Juanita told me via e-mail that she had breast cancer and that it had metastasized. This was at the same time that the Death Reference Desk launched. I had sent Juanita a rather silly message about why she [...]
- By: John
- In: Grief + Mourning
- Tags: memorial tattoos, obituaries, tattooing
On the Death of Animals
23, Oct 2011At-Home Pet Euthanasia Grows in Popularity Steve Hendrix, Washington Post (September 26, 2011) National Public Radio: Do Animals Grieve? Barbara J. King, National Public Radio (October 20, 2011) This past week I spent some time thinking about animals and death. As the bengal tigers, brown bears and lions were shot to death in Zanesville, Ohio [...]
- By: John
- In: Grief + Mourning|Uncategorized
- Tags: pets
Shade it Black
25, Jun 2011Earlier this week, NPR ran an interview with Jess Goodell, author of the new memoir Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq. The new book is Goodell’s account of her time as a Marine working in the Mortuary Affairs Unit in Iraq in 2004. Terry Gross interviewed Goodell in a segment entitled Death and [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Burial|Grief + Mourning
- Tags: mortuary science, soldiers