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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
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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!
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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Preservation
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
Resident takes on restoration of neglected cemeteries
BY AMANDA BELING
WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ - - Local resident Joel Parry spends his free time restoring two local cemeteries and in the process, is helping to uncover local history. According to Parry, there is a lot of historical information in the cemeteries that people probably don't know about because of how neglected they've been.
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Vandalism
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
By Mark Geary
CEDAR RAPIDS -- Unwanted visitors are leaving a big mess for the caretaker of a Cedar Rapids cemetery to clean-up. The cemetery even had to hire help to get rid of the guests. Czech National Cemetery sits directly across the street from the old landfill in Cedar Rapids. The landfill closed about a year ago, and that opened the door to a smelly situation.
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Famous Graves
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
James Brown's Daughter Upset About Final Resting Place
JAMES BROWN's secret love child is fighting the late soul star's estate in an effort to allow fans to visit his final resting place. LaRhonda Petit Brown claims the singer is currently buried in a crypt in the garden of one of his legitimate daughters - but she thinks Brown's grave should be accessible to all.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
By Jackie Jones
Effi Barry, the stoic, elegant ex-wife of former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who stood by his side during his notorious sex and drug scandal in 1990, died early Thursday in a hospital in Annapolis, Md., after a long battle with leukemia. She was 63.
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Trial Verdicts
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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PITTSBURGH: A former funeral director withdrew his guilty plea to charges that he stored the corpses of 19 babies in his garage. Robert Winston Jr., 63, withdrew his plea Thursday, when he was to be sentenced on one count of theft and one count of abusing a corpse.
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Strange and Unusual
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
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UK - In further corpse-storing news, two sisters have been keeping their dead mother's body in an undertaker's fridge for the past 10 years. But now other family members are complaining that Josephine and Valmai Lamas really should get round to organising a funeral, as the body is now in an advanced state of decomposition.
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History
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
by Mario Buhagiar
Malta’s only important late Gothic sculpture is the white marble state of St Paul which, since at least the 18th century, has been enshrined in an aedicule on the west facade of the church of St Paul Outside the Walls, at Rabat. Its provenance is unknown but the quality of the work is indicative of a prestigious commission perhaps for the Cathedral or, possibly, for the hallowed burial ground, and Pauline pilgrimage centre, at Rabat itself. The expressively modelled head, the stiff pleats of the drapery, and the elegantly elongated body with its accentuated S-curve point to a good workshop, probably, although not necessarily, in Sicily.
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Grave Robbers
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
BY BRENDA NKOSI
Malawi, Africa - Unknown persons in Zomba ex humed a grave and stole the body of 3-year-old Alinafe Kasingo just days after she was buried, police said yesterday. Police spokesperson for Eastern Headquarters, Eureka Chapusa, Alinafe Kasinga of Kadzuwa Village in Zomba died on Monday last week and was buried a day later.
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Vandalism
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
By Brandon Kline
Arizona - Police say they don't know why Christopher Billie wanted flowers so badly. Flagstaff Police say its one for the books. They've handled countless burglary cases, but not one like this. Last week, Christopher Billie allegedly climbed inside a hearse to steal flower arrangements.
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Caskets and Coffins
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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Vietnam– The Quang Tri Museum has recently received an ancient coffin made from a tree trunk, according to the museum’s director, Mai Truong Manh. The coffin was discovered on August 28 in Trung Chi village, Dong Luong ward, Dong Ha commune at 1.2 m underground when local residents were digging for the construction of an electricity post.
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Famous Graves
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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Kolkata, Asia – A sense of peace and calmness descends on one, as you enter the portals of Mother House on Chandra Bose Road, where Mother Teresa lived and died. On the door outside the Mother’s home, the nameplate reads that ‘Mother Teresa, MC’ is now permanently ‘IN’. Ten years on from her death, a pilgrimage to the Home of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, where people of all religions, rich and poor, sick and healthy, gather to pray. The Archbishop of the city: Benedict XVI made her a symbol of universal Christian love.
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Laws and Legislation
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Tuesday, 04 September 2007 |
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MEDFORD, Ore. - Making funeral arrangements after an unexpected death can be stressful for a surviving spouse, but it's a much more complicated situation if the spouse is responsible for the death. Under Oregon law, a murder suspect has the right to plan a funeral or cremation for the spouse he or she is accused of killing.
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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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Virginia is home to five Presidential gravesites, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Tyler.
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Quote Repository
“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.” Julie Burchill
Grave Epigrams
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Death is a debt to Nature due,
Which I have paid and so must you. 1789 |
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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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