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Living by the Dead
By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit
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Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski. Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery and to browse other available titles!

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
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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."
In the ground - or on display?
Exhibits
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Corpus conundrum: Could Body Worlds be your final resting place? Salt Lake City woman offers to be plastinated.

By Lisa Schencker

Most visitors barely notice the sign that hangs behind two human bodies -- stripped of skin and posed acrobatically -- in a corner of the Body Worlds exhibition. But Vanessa Bello, 27, pauses when she sees the sign, "Body Donation for Plastination." Bello recently registered to donate her body to the Institute for Plastination in hopes of one day joining the traveling exhibit, now at The Leonardo in Salt Lake City. The exhibit, which has attracted more than 100,000 visitors in Utah, consists of rooms full of preserved human bodies and body parts in glass cases displayed to educate visitors.

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New bust of 'Father' Dixon cast for Oakwood Cemetery
Restoration
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Dixon, IL -- After more than 100 years, "Father" Dixon's likeness was due for a facelift. Earlier this month, the Dixon family replaced the crumbling monument at Oakwood Cemetery with a new bronze bust of the city's founder.  The Italian marble high-relief bust of John Dixon, crafted around the turn of the 20th century, had long stood guard at the family gravesites. Weather had worn its soft stone features.
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Replica of Lincoln's casket coming to area
Exhibits
Monday, 24 November 2008
By CATHARINE HADLEY

FREMONT, OH -- Area historians will have the chance to view a replica of the casket in which President Abraham Lincoln was buried next month. Jason Kinn, co-owner and funeral director at the Herman-Kinn-Karlovetz Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 900 N. Front St., said the replica will be on display during an open house from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 11. The casket is one of five made 10 years ago by the Batesville Casket Company, modeled after the only known surviving photograph of the president lying in state in 1865.

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Teen death song pioneer Reynolds dies
Celebrity Deaths
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

PALM DESERT, California (AP) -- Ralph Joseph "Jody" Reynolds, the rockabilly singer and songwriter whose lone hit "Endless Sleep" in the 1950s ushered in a wave of tragic teen pop songs, has died. He was 75. Reynolds, who was inducted into Nashville's Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999, died November 7 in Palm Desert, said his musician friend Alan Clark, who toured with Reynolds in the 1980s.

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Ancient graves yield clues to family relationships
Ancient Burial
Monday, 17 November 2008
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

WASHINGTON (AP) - A stone-age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children.  "Their unity in death suggests unity in life," researchers said in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. While tools and remains from the stone age have long been studied, there are few clues to the social relationships between people.  
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More room on top
Burial
Friday, 14 November 2008
More room on top - lack of space brings in the doubledecker grave

By Fiona Hamilton, London Correspondent

The disturbance of human remains in burial grounds is to be allowed for the first time since the early Victorian era to deal with a shortage of graves, The Times has learnt. Under a test scheme to begin in the new year, local authorities across the country will be allowed to exhume remains and rebury them deeper to create space for further burials on top. In some cases, new inscriptions will be added to the existing headstone to ensure that the heritage of the grave is not destroyed. Damaged or insignificant headstones would be removed and replaced with only the new name.
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Makeshift grave in cemetery held fetus
Discovery
Friday, 14 November 2008

INDIANA -- Police say a fetus was buried in a makeshift grave found by University of Indianapolis students who were researching an old cemetery on the south side of Indianapolis. The small grave included a marker with "Baby Wheeler" written on it.

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'Jurassic Park' author, 'ER' creator Crichton dies
Celebrity Deaths
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Crichton, who helped create the TV show "ER" and wrote the best-sellers "Jurassic Park," "The Andromeda Strain," "Sphere" and "Rising Sun," has died in Los Angeles, his public relations firm said in a news release. Crichton died unexpectedly Tuesday "after a courageous and private battle against cancer," the release said. He was 66.
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Ex-Motown president Jheryl Busby dies at 59
Celebrity Deaths
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Jheryl Busby, the former president and chief executive of Motown Records who helped foster the careers of Boyz II Men and Johnny Gill, has died. He was 59. Busby was found early Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu, California, said Los Angeles County Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter. "It was a possible accident or else he died of natural causes," Winter said.
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'Peruvian Songbird' Yma Sumac dies
Celebrity Deaths
Monday, 03 November 2008
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born soprano who wowed international audiences in the 1950s with her stunning vocal range and modern take on South American folk music, has died. Sumac died Saturday at an assisted-living home in Los Angeles after an eight-month bout with colon cancer, Sumac's friend and personal assistant Damon Devine said Monday. Few biographical details are clear about the reclusive, raven-haired songstress. She was surrounded by rumors about her life and origins, many of them myths of her own making.
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New Age pioneer, author Marilyn Ferguson dies
Celebrity Deaths
Sunday, 02 November 2008

BANNING, California (AP) -- Marilyn Ferguson, whose best-selling book "The Aquarian Conspiracy" helped establish the New Age movement by tying together its disparate threads, has died. She was 70. Ferguson died October 19 at her home in western Riverside County. She is believed to have died of a heart attack, her son, Eric, told the Los Angeles Times. "The Aquarian Conspiracy," published in 1980, was the first comprehensive analysis of the various unconnected efforts -- such as scientists investigating biofeedback, midwives running alternative birthing centers, and a Christian evangelist promoting meditation -- that would coalesce into the New Age movement.

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Acclaimed author Studs Terkel dies at 96
Celebrity Deaths
Saturday, 01 November 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, radio host and activist Studs Terkel died in his Chicago, Illinois, home Friday at the age of 96. Terkel had grown frail since the publication last year of his memoir, "Touch and Go," said Gordon Mayer, vice president of the Community Media Workshop, which Terkel had supported. "I'm still in touch, but I'm ready to go," he said last year at his last public appearance with the workshop, a nonprofit that recognizes Chicago reporters who take risks in covering the city.
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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

California is home to two Presidential gravesites, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Adam speech, 1883

Grave Epigrams

Accused of witchcraft, She declared "I am innocent and God will
Clear my innocency." Once acquitted yet falsely condemned, she suffered
Death July 19, 1692, her Christian character even then fully attested by forty of her neighbors.

Rebecca Nurse

Salem, Massachussets 1692

 

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