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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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  • July 26, 2014

    Day 26: Photos of London’s Afro-Caribbean Funerals

    How great thou art: 50 years of Afro-Caribbean funerals – in pictures Charlie Phillips, in The Guardian (July 25, 2014) The spirituals sung, the Scotch…

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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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  • June 25, 2011

    Shade it Black

    Earlier this week, NPR ran an interview with Jess Goodell, author of the new memoir Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq. The new…

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  • May 9, 2011

    On the Death of Osama Bin Laden

    Watery Grave, Murky Law Leor Halevi, New York Times (May 08, 2011) Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea and the history of Shariah.   Bin…

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  • April 15, 2011

    Dead Body and Technology Lecture Tuesday April 19

    Future Death: The Dead Human Body as Biomass An Illustrated lecture with Dr. John Troyer Deputy Director Centre for Death and Society University of Bath…

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  • April 7, 2011

    1,000 Irradiated Dead Bodies in Japan

    Up to 1,000 Bodies Left Untouched Near Troubled Nuke Plant Kyodo News (March 31, 2011) I started this new post on the aftermath in Japan…

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  • March 24, 2011

    Japan Begins Mass Burials

    Hasty Burial for the Dead Collides With Tradition Michael Wines, The New York Times (March 24, 2011) Families of the tsunami’s victims faced a mass…

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  • January 20, 2011

    Update on 91 Year Old Pennsylvania Woman Keeping Corpses in House

    Happy Homecoming for Widow Who Lived with Corpses Authorities found out and took the embalmed corpses away. She is having a mausoleum built on her…

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  • December 14, 2010

    Jewish Burial Gets Back to the Roots

    Reviving a Ritual of Tending to the Dead Paul Vitello, The New York Times (December 13, 2010) A new generation of Jewish volunteers is learning…

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  • October 8, 2010

    Green Burial: A Review

    Eco-friendly or “green” burial methods and practices are the hot topic in the funeral industry and mortuary sciences these days. Everywhere you turn, there is…

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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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