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…
Author: Meg Holle
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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, 2012The 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, 2011CDC 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, 201112:31 – 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, 2011Stay 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, 2010Undead 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…
