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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
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Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.
Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.
Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana for more information.
West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.
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Arrete! C'est ici L'Empire de la Mort -- "Stop! This is the Empire of Death."
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Archaeology
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
by Giao Huong
Over the last 40 years renowned archeologist Do Dinh Truat has presided over some 330 excavations of Vietnam’s ancient tombs, more than any one else in Vietnam. "Tomb excavation”, says Truat, “let’s one unearth the worlds of the dead, especially those of the upper classes, and find the missing pieces that make up the great puzzle of our history."
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Editorials
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
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By Brenda Cummings
Gravestones appear on front lawns in October, and they are gone by the first week in November. They and the accompanying Halloween decorations are generally, well, tacky. By contrast, real cemeteries are infinitely interesting, often informative and enlightening. They are only scary in the daytime with wind, rain, thunder and lightning.
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Tourism
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
The Mutter Museum shows the weird, wonderful world of medical oddities
By CHUCK DARROW
One can only wonder what Thomas Dent Mutter would think if he were alive today. Mutter (pronounced MOO-ter) was the 19th century doctor who, in 1858, donated his anatomic and pathological specimens to The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Mutter's intent was to offer other medical professionals research and educational materials so that they might further the cause of health care. That anyone could walk off the street and view his collection of medical oddities would probably have caused the good doctor -- a retired professor of surgery at Thomas Jefferson University -- some degree of consternation.
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Thanatology Interests
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
By Philippe Beauchemin
There is only one academic program in Quebec people can take to become a thanatologist, or embalmer. And this program is offered at Collčge de Rosemont, where about 40 students study death and undertaking every year. According to Martin Trudeau, who has been a thanatologist for eight years, the job encompasses many responsibilities. “It’s a job that is very human. You’re in contact with the family of the deceased, and you have to give moral support. It’s much more than just preparing the body.”
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Friday, 12 October 2007 |
By KITTY CAPARELLA
A Municipal Court judge yesterday refused to impose a gag order on attorneys representing three funeral-home operators and two others charged with thousands of crimes in a sordid body-parts scandal. Defense attorney Glenn Zeitz asked Municipal Judge David C. Shuter to bar attorneys from talking with the media, citing remarks by a co-defendant's New York lawyer in an Oct. 10 Daily News article here.
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Exhumation
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
By JOHN FLESHER
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the rallying cry "Win one for the Gipper," was exhumed recently for DNA testing in his Upper Peninsula hometown. The test was sought by the Gipp family and met legal requirements, Houghton County Medical Examiner Dr. Dawn Nulf said Wednesday, although it angered some relatives who live in the area where Gipp was born and raised.
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Tri-State Crematory
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
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A lawsuit filed by Walker County, Ga., against the Marsh family in the Tri-State Crematory case has been dismissed. Judge William J. Smith, who was handling the case by interchange, ordered the dismissal. Dismissal of the lawsuit was one of the contingencies required on a recent $18 million Federal Court settlement in behalf of plaintiffs whose loved ones were taken to the crematory at Noble, Ga., near LaFayette.
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Grave Mistakes
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
BY MATTHEW CHAYES
A man buried with military honors earned by someone else was homeless and a handyman for a time and appears to have used that veteran's Social Security number since at least 1998, records show.
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Famous Graves
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
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A Russian government official has suggested there should be a referendum on what to do with the embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. He suggested the body of the Communist firebrand, who died in 1924, should be moved from Moscow's Red Square as an act of closure on Russia's turbulent past.
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Serial Killers
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
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A Russian man accused of murdering 49 people asked a court on Tuesday to add another eleven victims to his tally. Supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin, 33, has been branded the 'chessboard murderer' by Russian newspapers because he hoped to put a coin on every square of a 64-place chessboard for each murder. If convicted, Pichushkin could be Russia's most prolific serial killer. Following is a list of some of the world's most notorious serial killers in recent history:
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Cremains
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
By Steve Jefferson
Indianapolis - On Friday morning, airport police ordered an evacuation for the second time in a week. An airport screener allowed a passenger's urn which contained remains through the checkpoint without checking it first.
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Ancient Egypt
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Sunday, 07 October 2007 |
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Tourists to Egypt will be able to see the mummy of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun for the first time in early November, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported on Friday.
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Taphophilia?
taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)
ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"
DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries
Taphophilia Facts
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According to the census bureau, about 2.4 million Americans died in 2000. About 6.5 million are expected to die in 2080.
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Quote Repository
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” Walt Whitman
Grave Epigrams
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"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. " |
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The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.
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