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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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Serial Killers
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
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Having profiled in documentary form the exploits of early American serial killers H.H. Holmes and Albert Fish, filmmaker John Borowski is now moving on to Carl Panzram. Hung in 1930 for killing a Leavenworth prison guard, here’s what serial killer Carl Panzram had to say about his previous criminal deeds: ‘In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings,’
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Ancient Egypt
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
By Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News
Black, leathery, shriveled and cracked, King Tut emerged with a toothy smile from his gleaming sarcophagus on Sunday, showing his face to the world for the first time. Exactly 85 years after Howard Carter discovered the pharaoh's treasure-packed tomb, King Tut's mummy left forever his original sarcophagus and moved to a new coffin in the antechamber of his small underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
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Funeral Industry
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
By Charmaine Smith-Miles
South Carolina - A crisp wind blows through the trees, rustling the dried-out leaves. Birds
chirp their messages to each another in the graveyard of this church that is
perched in the middle of a pasture in northern Anderson County.
For a bit these are the only noises that break through the silence of the
country landscape.
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Strange and Unusual
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
ORLANDO, Fla.,- Police in Orlando, Fla., have
arrested a man for allegedly attacking a dead body in an open casket at a local
church. Orlando police alleged that Timothy Cleary entered Harvest
Baptist Church during a funeral and proceeded to punch and attack the body
inside the displayed casket, Florida's WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported Sunday.
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Mourning
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
By Stefanie Kranjec
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadians are becoming wordier, particularly when it comes to their last words. Alberta-based author Nancy Millar has wandered the country's graveyards and says that over the past 20 years, gravestone epitaphs have begun to illustrate a trend of Canadians wanting to be more than "eternally beloved" when they "rest in peace."
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Pop Culture
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
By John W. Whitehead
Borderfire Report
“I am
Dracula.”—Bela Lugosi
Halloween is associated with strange creatures, but
none more so than the vampire. To most, the vampire is a myth, an image
popularized in movies, television and books. Yet the vampire is no mere
Hollywood creation. It is a universal legend.
Stories about this
blood-sucking fiend have been told throughout the world for centuries, perhaps
as long as tales have been told. The villagers of Uganda, Haiti, Indonesia and
the Upper Amazon all have their local variety of vampire. Native American
tribes, Arctic Eskimos and many Arabian tribes know the vampire well. Many of
the stories are obviously myth, but some no doubt have their roots in
reality.
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Pop Culture
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
The King reclaims his top spot on the list with a $49 million year, while settlements with Apple and EMI boost the Beatle to No. 2.
By Lea Goldman and Jake Paine for Forbes.com
The 13 legends in our seventh annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities grossed a combined $232 million in the past 12 months. Many are instantly recognizable one-name wonders (Elvis, Marilyn, Warhol) who still command attention worldwide, making them a marketer's ideal pitchman.
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Strange and Unusual
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Monday, 29 October 2007 |
By KATIE MENZER
Dallas - On the face of it, the truck full of human heads could have been a Halloween prank or the makings of a scary movie. "This is in the top five of the strangest things – maybe the strangest – that I've ever encountered," Hunt County Justice of the Peace Aaron Williams said Monday. Judge Williams was called to the scene when a regular traffic stop Sunday morning by Royse City police turned into a grisly discovery of severed heads in the back of a tractor-trailer.
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Eco-Friendly Burial
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Saturday, 27 October 2007 |
By JOHN RICHARDSON
Some believe that services at home and simple caskets gradually will change how society deals with death. Klara Tammany's mother didn't want a typical American funeral. No embalming, no metal casket, not even a funeral home. When she died after a long illness a couple of years ago, family members and friends washed and dressed her body and put it in a homemade wooden casket, which was laid across two sawhorses in the dining room of her condo in Brunswick.
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History
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
By Steven Stanek
King Tutankhamun likely died after falling from his chariot while hunting, Egypt's top archaeologist says in an upcoming TV documentary, offering new insights into the boy pharaoh's long-debated death. Tutankhamun is widely thought to have died of an infection stemming from a broken leg, after CT scans in 2005 revealed a severe fracture in his left thighbone, challenging theories that he had been murdered.
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Media Reviews
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
Popular Character Scarpetta Returns in New Novel
Author Patricia Cornwell has brought Kay Scarpetta back. The character, who helped make Cornwell a best-selling writer, returns in the author's new book, "Book of the Dead." Fans also will recognize familiar characters from previous books, like Dr. Self and Pete Marino. The novel has the forensic pathologist Scarpetta checking into the death of a young tennis star after she discovers a connection with the unidentified body of a South Carolina boy. For more on this murder mystery, read an excerpt below.
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Strange and Unusual
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
BY NATHAN CROMBIE
Wairarapa, New Zealand - An American embalmer was early for a job interview at a Carterton funeral home last week despite having died last year. Richmond Funeral Home director Peter Giddens said yesterday that Allen Kirk Wolford was unsuccessful in his application to work at the Carterton business even though he arrived early and, on paper at least, had all the qualities of an experienced and trustworthy embalmer and funeral director.
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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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Illinois is home to one Presidential gravesite, Abraham Lincoln.
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Quote Repository
“What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.” Longfellow
Grave Epigrams
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'Tis but a few whose days amount
To threescore years and ten
And all beyond that short account
Is sorrow toil, and pain. 1791 |
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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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