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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
What's New at Arcadia
Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock
Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!
Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca
Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the 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.
Announcements
Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!
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 Kitsune Books for more information.
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!
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 with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman
Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture 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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Celebrity Deaths
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
By Robert King
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Mourners from around the country filed through the Tibetan Buddhist temple here Wednesday to bid farewell to a man they described as a friend, a freedom fighter and a high lama. Now they await his reincarnation, which they expect anytime. More than 100 people in a procession dropped yellow, blue and white silk blessing scarves at the feet of Thubten J. Norbu, a former Indiana University professor who was the eldest brother of the Dalai Lama.
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Strange and Unusual
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 |
In search of the strange and wonderful? All things are considered at these 10 U.S. shops and museums with a curiosity-cabinet theme.
By Pam Grossman for MSN City Guides
So far this century has been a sleek and shiny age marked by clean lines and minimalist décor (Apple store, anyone?) While white plastic gadgets have captured many a heart, sometimes I long for a time when clutter was a sign of abundance and extravagance was king. After all, in the 17th century, you wouldn’t have been an aristocrat worth your salt unless your home had a dedicated display case (or better yet, an entire room) crowded with a collection of marvelous objects accumulated over the years. Called “cabinets of curiosities” – or wunderkammern – these personal exhibits paid homage to the wonders and mysteries of the world. A typical curiosity cabinet might have included zoological specimens, geological rarities, anatomical aberrations, and exceptional works of art, all juxtaposed in a visual melee designed to set the viewer’s jaw dropping and eyes agog.
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Military
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
By TIM FOUGHT
PORTLAND, Ore. - Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor. He never came home. Ensign Eldon Wyman was 24 when he died in the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Along with hundreds of others, he was buried in mass graves, officially listed as unknowns. But Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the remains of Eldon Wyman and two other sailors had been identified, and their remains would be returned to their families.
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Strange and Unusual
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
Rachael Storm, the bride, said the location did ‘not creep me out at all’
It generally has flowers, and a clergyman is often present, but this was a first for a local funeral home. Jason and Rachael Storm held their wedding at Starks and Menchinger Family Funeral Home, where he is a funeral director. Their reception, including dinner and dancing, also was held at the funeral home.
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Industry Lawsuits
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
Relatives awarded $300,000 after casket broke apart during transfer to mausoleum
By Jon Murray
Indiana--Much as she tries, Linda Anderson-Hardwick can't forget what she saw, heard and smelled that day five years ago at a Greenwood cemetery. Her brother's cherry wood casket, interred more than a year earlier, broke apart as workers removed it from a mausoleum vault. A Marion Superior Court jury found Forest Lawn Memory Gardens negligent Wednesday and awarded $300,000 to four members of William Joseph Henry's family for their anguish.Anderson-Hardwick, 57, said the money would mean little if another family ever had to endure the same shock.
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Vandalism
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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GREENSBURG, Ind. -- Authorities are trying to find out who toppled dozens of tombstones, some estimated to have weighed two tons, in a rural Decatur County cemetery. Some 30 to 40 gravestones were destroyed at the Shiloh Cemetery, said Decatur County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Henderson. Some dated from as early as the 1850s.
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Bones
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 |
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ANDERSON, Ind. -- Authorities say bones dug up by a work crew at a downtown Anderson intersection are human and might have been buried in the 19th century when the area was part of a graveyard. The remains were found Tuesday about 3 feet below the surface while workers replaced gas lines. Experts say the bones are consistent with a 19th century burial. The area was a cemetery from 1839 to 1863.
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Ancient Egypt
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
By Salah Nasrawi
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, Egyptian antiquity authorities said Wednesday. The two tiny female fetuses, between five to seven months in gestational age, were found in the King Tut's tomb in Luxor when the tomb was disovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
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Media Reviews
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us by Jack Mingo
Now you can add to your stack of Star Wars tomes a new volume of factoid porn from George Lucas Books called Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us. Why is Lucas publishing this book full of stats about how many people die from bad breath (lots) vs. how many die from hormones (way more)? Apparently the guy just has death on his mind. Could this be a secret hint about certain events to come in the Clone Wars series and August movie?
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Celebrity Deaths
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Larry Harmon, who played Bozo the Clown for more than 50 years, has died of congestive heart failure at age 83, his spokesman confirmed. Harmon, a native of Ohio, died at his home in Los Angeles, spokesman Jerry Digney said. Harmon was not the original Bozo, but he portrayed the flame-haired clown in numerous appearances over the years.
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Mourning
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Australia - Frank Sinatra, Loui Armstrong and Led Zeppelin hits are replacing hymns at funerals in Australia, according to a cemetery manager. At Centennial Park, the largest cemetery and crematorium in the southern city of Adelaide, only two hymns still rank alongside songs like Frank Sinatra's classic hit My Way and Louis Armstrong's version of Wonderful World in its top 10 most popular funeral songs: Amazing Grace and Abide With Me.
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Vandalism
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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COPENHAGEN — The gravestone of Denmark's famed story teller Hans Christian Andersen was vandalised along with other tombs at a cemetery in Copenhagen, police said on Wednesday. The tomb of the author, who penned stories including "The Little Mermaid", was covered in messages referring to a residence for young people razed in March last year, said police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch. The city of Copenhagen recently cleaned graffiti off the wall surrounding the cemetery and, according to Munch, the vandalism that took place overnight Tuesday was in response to this.
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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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Missouri is home to one Presidential gravesite, Harry S. Truman.
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Quote Repository
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” Walt Whitman
Grave Epigrams
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In prosp'rous life, he felt deaths heavy stroke Yet, calmly bow'd to what the Lord had spoke; And left the church, a wife & children dear; To mourn their loss while he's no longer hear. 1792 |
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Taphophilia Thanks
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