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  • The Adventures of Momento Mori
    January 18, 2016

    Adventures of Momento Mori

    Meg, here. There’re some new death kids on the block, and they aaiight. The Adventures of Momento Mori launched about a month ago at the…

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  • May 26, 2014

    Grave Matters… Muahahahaha!

    Grave Matters (podcast)
    BackStory, with the American History Guys (May 23, 2014)

    This week the genius history podcast BackStory rebroadcasted their show “Grave Matters” in honor of Memorial Day.

    Did you know that the term “funeral parlors” was a marketing riff on the Victorian parlor room of the home, the inevitable site of the wake and funeral? To kick the dour image of death, the parlor eventually morphed into the “living” room. BOOM!

    Do check it out. Always informative and entertaining, BackStory is one my (Meg’s) favorite podcasts.

    Grave Matters (podcast) BackStory, with the American History Guys (May 23, 2014) This week the genius history podcast BackStory rebroadcasted their show “Grave Matters” in…

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  • January 29, 2012

    The Kindness of Strangers and the Internet: Finding William’s Grave at Mountain View

    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…

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  • May 19, 2011

    CDC Prepares Citizens for Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse

    Social Media: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse Ali S. Khan, CDC Public Health Matters Blog (May 16, 2011) Ah, zombies — irrepressible, insatiable, instantly recognizable… and…

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  • April 4, 2011

    12:31 – Killer Photos

    Project 12:31 Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott via Today and Tomorrow, “12:31” All DeathRef bloggers will one day answer for their sins of gratuitous and…

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  • March 20, 2011

    The Bereaved Consumer’s Bill of Rights Act of 2011

    We’ve seen some pretty nasty cemetery abuses in recent months, from Burr Oak to Arlington. Nancy in Texas tipped off the Death Reference Desk about…

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  • January 9, 2011

    Stay Classy, AccuQuote and CNN

    In the wake of Saturday’s shooting in Arizona, leaving among the dead a federal judge and a 9-year-old, with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition…

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  • December 6, 2010

    Undead Enough for Modern Life: Zombie Rumination

    My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead Chuck Klosterman, New York Times (December 3, 2010) Hey, DeathRef Gentle Readers. Meg Holle, Resident Zombie,…

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  • November 7, 2010

    Sick Beauty in the Stains of Death: Sarah Sudhoff’s “At the Hour of Our Death”

    At the Hour of Our Death Sarah Sudhoff Our worldly possessions speak to how we live, while their particular aesthetics — the whorl of this…

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  • October 15, 2010

    Last Words Reprise

    I posted a bit ago about William Brahms’ Last Words of Notable People. I wasn’t the first (and certainly shan’t be the last) to get super-nerdy about it.

    Check out author John Green’s lovely, spastic video review. Hee hee!

    I posted a bit ago about William Brahms’ Last Words of Notable People. I wasn’t the first (and certainly shan’t be the last) to get…

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  • September 29, 2010

    Skyscraper Burial in Mumbai

    Vertical Cemetery is a Greenery Clad Final Resting Place for Mumbai Yuka Yoneda, Inhabit.com (September 28, 2010) We’ve posted before about vertical burial — that…

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  • August 23, 2010

    “Last Words” Scholarly at Last

    Last Words of Notable People William B. Brahms. (2010). 680 pages. Haddonfield, NJ: Reference Desk Press. ISBN: 978-09765325-2-1 Press kit with sample pages (PDF) Order…

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