Posts Tagged ‘foreclosure’
Bring Out Your Dead Checkbook
1, Dec 2010FTC Proposes New Guidelines for Collecting Debt from Dead People Ylan Q. Mui, The Washington Post (November 22, 2010) The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to revise the protocol surrounding two of life’s touchiest subjects: debt and death. Are Cemeteries the New Safe Investment? Patrick Collinson, The Guardian (October 16, 2010) With a shortage of [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Economy|Death + the Law
- Tags: foreclosure, insurance
Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied Alison Stateman, Time Magazine (August 07, 2009) News stories about unclaimed dead bodies, accumulating in morgues across America, continue to pop up. Death Ref Librarian Kim found this one and I decided to post it. What makes this particular Time article slightly different than the other articles [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: foreclosure, unclaimed bodies
Final Resting Place, In Foreclosure Theresa Vargas and Michael Williamson, Washington Post, (August 4, 2009) Just when it seemed that news about the US economy and Death could not get any odder (and/or sadder), I came across the following blog post. Two writers employed by the Washington Post, Theresa Vargas and Michael Williamson, run a [...]
- By: John
- In: Cemeteries|Death + the Economy
- Tags: foreclosure