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  • August 2, 2015

    How to Build a Survivor Library Before the Grid Goes Down — Embalming Books Included

    The Survivor Library One the Media, WNYC Public Radio (2014 and 2015) WNYC’s radio show On The Media is a constant source of solid information…

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  • July 21, 2014

    Day 21: Dealing with Dead Bodies in Mass Fatality Events

    Dutch Investigators Finally Gain Access to MH17 Remains Caroline Bankoff, Daily Intelligencer (July 21, 2014) Last week’s shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in…

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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 10, 2011

    Bye Bye Birdies

    The recent spate of mass bird deaths has taken flight across the Internet—a literal and figurative tweeting and Twittering—and dare I say crowing—on a large…

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  • January 27, 2010

    The Last Post on Haiti’s Dead

    In Haiti, A Proper Burial is in Short Supply Frances Robles, Nadege Charles and Elinor J. Breche, Miami Herald (January 25, 2010) This will be…

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  • January 22, 2010

    Envisioning the Death Toll in Haiti

    Haiti’s Many Troubles Keep Bodies Uncounted Simon Romero and Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times (January 21, 2010) Haiti quake toll ‘may be 200,000’ BBC News…

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  • January 19, 2010

    The (un)Diseased Dead

    Infectious Disease Risks from Dead Bodies Following Natural Disasters (pdf) Oliver Morgan, Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2004;15(5):307–12. In the wake of the deaths…

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  • January 19, 2010

    Haiti’s Anonymous Dead

    As Haitians Flee, the Dead Go Uncounted Damien Cave, New York Times (January 18, 2010) Last home of country’s most famous families turns from place…

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  • January 18, 2010

    The Impossibility of Identifying the Dead in Haiti

    How can a country in the grip of an apocalyptic tragedy deal in a dignified way with its victims? Paul Harris, The Guardian (January 17,…

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