Posts Tagged ‘cremains’
UK Hindu Man is Burning Down the House
12, Feb 2010Hindu Wins Northumberland Funeral Pyre Battle
BBC News (February 10, 2010)
Hindu Man Wins Court Battle for Open-Air Cremation Pyre
Matthew Taylor The Guardian (February 10, 2010)
It has been a big week for cremation in the UK. On Wednesday, Davender Ghai, a 71-year old Hindu man from Newcastle won a landmark court case on Appeal. The Ghai case [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Death + the Law
- Tags: cremains, green burial, religion, video
Using Cremains in Memorial Tattoos
25, Oct 2009Samantha asks the Death Reference Desk:
A couple relatives and I just had my aunt’s ashes put in ink for a memorial tat. My question is since she was so sick, will there be a transfer or will it be okay since she was cremated?
The short answer is: Yes, it’ll be okay. Cremators run between 1400 [...]
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 an article [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy| Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, cremains, funeral homes, insurance, unclaimed bodies, video
Reduce – Reuse – Recycle – the Dead…
13, Aug 2009Body Heat
The Economist (August 6, 2009)
Let us all say it together: Reduce – Reuse – Recycle. Now add: Dead bodies. It’s true. Shocking, but true.
A strong case can be made that organ donation, for example, is the noblest form of cadaveric recycling and that the reuse of human organs and tissues to extend life [...]
- By: John
- In: Cremation| Death + Technology| Death Ethics| Eco-Death
- Tags: bioethics, cremains, green burial
Urn Design Comes to a Head
28, Jul 2009Personal Urns from Cremation Solutions
via Chip Chick
Death masks are so eighteenth century. Cremation Solutions – purveyor of creative cremains transformations—offer urns that look like the noggin of the dearly departed, or whoever’s head it is you want to be stored in.
I am suspicious of company names that boast “solutions,” as that implies the [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Cremation| Death + Art / Architecture| Death + Technology
- Tags: cremains, memorializing, urns