Posts Tagged ‘coffins’
Cremating Supersized Dead Bodies
16, Dec 2009Bath Cemetery Refused to Cremate Man Because He Was Too Heavy The Bath Chronicle (December 14, 2009) Every once in a while, a dead body story brings home the following point: all the issues that surround the living world don’t entirely stop when a person dies. Indeed, funeral directors and crematorium operators encounter most aspects [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, obesity
Wal-Mart: Save Money. Live Better. Die Cheap(ly).
29, Oct 2009Wal-Mart Starts Selling Caskets, Urns Online Emily Fredrix, Associated Press (October 28, 2009) It’s all over the death-dar: following Costco’s lead, Wal-Mart now offers caskets and urns for sale online, with priority Fed-Ex freight shipment anywhere in the continental U.S. With prices that undercut funeral home options combined with its juggernaut consumer base — not [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Humor|Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, urns, video
Minnesota Historical Society Funerary Objects Matt Anderson, MNHS Curator (October 19, 2009) Just in time for Halloween. The Minnesota Historical Society presents the following video on Funerary Objects from its own collection. Many state historical societies have these kinds of objects in storage. It’s always interesting to see how they present them and when. Halloween, [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, video
How Dead Bodies Become Beetle Juice
10, Oct 2009To Casket Or Not To Casket? One Of America’s Great Field Biologists Thinks About Burial Robert Krulwich, NPR (October 9, 2009) NPR science reporter Robert Krulwich (also of RadioLab fame) did this short piece (it’s a little over five minutes long) on the decomposition of dead animal bodies and their consumption by beetles. He interviews [...]
- By: John
- In: Burial|Death + Biology|Eco-Death
- Tags: coffins, decomposition, green burial
Detroit: Too broke to bury their dead Poppy Harlow, CNNMoney.com (October 1, 2009) This CNN story on Detroit is heartbreaking. The economic situation in Detroit is horrible enough, but this particular dispatch says more about the financial straits of life and death than anything I have seen. Over the summer, the New York Times ran [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, cremains, funeral homes, insurance, unclaimed bodies, video