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A repository of morbid curiosities:
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Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
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Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
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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."
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Trial Verdicts
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
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PITTSBURGH - A local coffin supplier is headed to prison after the government says he allegedly robbed people at vulnerable times. Joseph M. Stabile ran Celestial Burial Case, a company where people could buy caskets in advance of death. The problem is the government says Stabile took the money and didn’t deliver.
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Capital Punishment
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007 |
A majority decision by nine United States Supreme Court judges will decide the ultimate fate of murderers Ralph Baze and Thomas Bowling
By David Pannick
In his compelling new book on the United States Supreme Court, The Nine (Doubleday, $27.95), Jeffrey Toobin quotes the question Justice William Brennan used to ask his law clerks in the 1960s: “What is the most important law at the Supreme Court?” The clerks would puzzle over the answer. Was it freedom of speech or due process or equal protection? Justice Brennan would enlighten them: “The law of five. With five votes, you can do anything around here.” Opponents of the death penalty will be hoping that five votes out of nine justices can be found to establish that the death penalty implemented by lethal injection is a breach of the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Exhumation
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
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Controversy has surrounded the death of Anna Nicole Smith and even 8 months after she was buried the former model may not be allowed to rest in peace. Reports say investigators may have to exhume Anna Nicole’s body for examination. An investigation into Smith’s death was launched and resulted in eight warrants being issued, two of them to doctors who prescribed the actress with medications.
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Archaeology
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Sunday, 14 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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Sunday, 14 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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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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Each year in the U.S. we bury 30 million board feet of hardwoods, including tropical woods, in caskets
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Quote Repository
“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” Robert Bolt
Grave Epigrams
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In the midst of life we are in death. Dedham, MA 1831 |
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Shirtless and Sculpted
The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.
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