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  • August 17, 2011

    Soylent Green is Dead Bodies Eaten by Mushrooms

    Green Burial Project Developing Corpse-Eating Mushrooms Paul Ridden, gizmag.com (July 29, 2011)   The Infinity Burial Project Jae Rhim Lee Every once in a while…

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  • February 10, 2011

    Postmortem on Frontline’s Post Mortem

    Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America Frontline, NPR, and Pro Publica (February 01, 2011) Go Go Frontline. There are moments in this documentary on postmortem…

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  • October 30, 2010

    And the Corpse Rides Shotgun Follow-Up

    Portrait Emerges of Woman Whose Mummified Body was Found in Car Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times (October 28, 2010) Last week I wrote about a…

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  • October 22, 2010

    And the Corpse Rides Shotgun

    Woman Drove Around With Mummified Body Salvador Hernandez and Greg Hardesty, The Orange County Register (October 22, 2010) I am a little surprised that only…

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  • June 11, 2010

    Murder?! The Maggots Are on It

    Crime Scene Insects BBC World Service (June 11, 2010) This episode of BBC Documentaries explores forensic entomology: “the investigation of insects recovered from crime scenes…

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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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  • October 13, 2009

    Death and the Economy: Too Many Unclaimed Dead Bodies for the Body Farm…

    Indigent Burials Are on the Rise Katie Zezima, The New York Times (October 11, 2009) Regular readers of the Death Reference Desk will recognize that…

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  • October 10, 2009

    How Dead Bodies Become Beetle Juice

    To Casket Or Not To Casket? One Of America’s Great Field Biologists Thinks About Burial Robert Krulwich, NPR (October 9, 2009) NPR science reporter Robert…

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  • September 13, 2009

    The Nose Knows

    Universal ‘Death Stench’ Repels Bugs of All Types Hadley Leggett, Wired (September 09, 2009) The smell of death is all around us. Sometimes it hits…

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  • August 27, 2009

    Putrescine, Cadaverine, and Dog Job Stealing Robots

    New Insights into the “Smell of Death” Could Help Recover Bodies in Disasters and Solve Crimes American Chemical Society Press Release (August 16, 2009) via…

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