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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
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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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Mourning
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
By ERIC HORNG, RAINA GITTLIN AND IMAEYEN IBANGA
Doctors have long understood the power of grief in connection to one's health, and now, a new medical study shows just how fragile a broken heart really can be. Men, in particular, are more susceptible to suffering serious health consequences on the anniversaries marking the deaths of loved ones, especially a parent, according to new research from the American College of Cardiology.
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Customs
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
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Beijingers have started flocking to the city's cemeteries in crowds for the Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, to honor their deceased relatives. Approximately 320,000 residents had already visited 75 cemeteries in the capital as of Saturday to clean the graves of their ancestors and grieve for deceased relatives, the Beijing News reported. The local civil affairs department said the number was less than expected due to rainy weather this weekend.
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Hauntings
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
By Malcolm Moore
Rome - After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for the past three years, an Italian family is preparing to sue the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted. Gaetano Bastianelli, 57, and his wife Stefania paid €120,000 (£94,000, $147,169.02 USD) for the modern home in the Umbrian town of Spoleto in 2005 - encouraged by the fact that all the furniture and fittings were left by the owners, right down to the coffee cups. "We considered it the deal of the century," said Mr Bastianelli.
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Tourism
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
Most people don't usually think of a cemetery as a place for history, but some of Nevada's most prominent historical figures can be found at the Lone Mountain Cemetery in Carson City. Lone Mountain can trace its beginnings to the early 1860s and the earliest days of Carson City. Many pioneering Carsonites-as well as several governors and other 19th century state leaders-were laid to rest at Lone Mountain.
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Seepe Crematorium
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
By Chris Joyner
Jackson, MS - When Cindy Johnston's husband died in 2004, she followed his wishes and had his remains cremated by Mark Seepe Funeral Directors and Crematorium in Jackson. She recalls Seepe as helpful, professional and charming. "He was very charismatic. He probably could have talked us into anything at that point," she said. It is a common impression left by a man now under intense scrutiny after photographs taken by a former employee surfaced last week that appear to show human remains - ashes and bones - being heaped together in a metal drum.
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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NEW YORK -- Participants in a ghoulish scheme to plunder corpses for body parts made up names for the deceased so that the tissue could never be traced as it was sold for use in unsuspecting transplant patients, one participant testified. Some corpses had signs of cancer, tuberculosis or other illnesses, Lee Cruceta testified Tuesday at the trial of another man charged in the scheme. Other bodies were visibly decrepit, Cruceta said.
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Media Reviews
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Friday, 21 March 2008 |
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The Green River Killer (Gary Leon Ridgway) known as one of the nation’s most infamous serial killers, murdered for nearly 20 years until Sheriff David Reichert brought him to justice in November of 2001. Watch Lifetime Movie Network’s mini-series of this incredible true story, “The Capture of the Green River Killer” starring Tom Cavanagh, Amy Davidson, Sharon Lawrence, James Russo, and James Marsters. It airs Sunday March 30th and Monday March 31st at 8pm. Check out more information about the movie, cast, exclusive interviews, and “The Capture of the Green River Killer” trailer here: http://www.lmn.tv/movies/lmnop.php?id=MOVE+4198.
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Natural Disasters
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
A message from Jon:
On Friday, March 14th, a tornado hit the city, causing serious damage to the historic Victorian Oakland Cemetery, the original municipal cemetery for the city of Atlanta. Pictures of the damage and details are available here: http://www.oaklandcemetery.com/damage.html Most of the press coverage has naturally focused on the damage to buildings and homes in Atlanta. I am hoping to get the word out about the plight of Oakland Cemetery, which was already financially strapped before this disaster.
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Bones
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
By ANTONELLA LAZZERI
UK - NEW bone fragments have been unearthed from a shallow grave at Jersey's horror home, police said yesterday. A sniffer dog trained to detect human remains reacted positively when shown the pieces, found in the same place as a child;s skull. They could belong to a youngster abused at the kids' home.
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Neglect
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
By John R. Ellement
Boston, MA - A couple was awarded $325,000 today by a jury that ruled that they suffered emotional distress when the remains of their stillborn son were lost and possibly cremated by a Boston funeral home. The civil verdict in Suffolk Superior Court came after 1 1/2 days of deliberation and made the couple very happy. Robert and Therese Bellissimo Benedict said they suffered needlessly because of a mistake made by a local funeral home that lost the personal touch when it was absorbed by a national chain.
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Exhumation
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
BY ANNMARIE COSTELLA
Harry Houdini escaped from handcuffs, straitjackets and water-filled oversized milk cans - but the one thing he could never get away from was publicity. Larry Sloman and William Kalush, authors of "The Secret Life of Houdini," theorize that the magician was fatally poisoned by a vengeful clairvoyant on Halloween of 1926, and not felled by a ruptured appendix as long believed.
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Grave Mistakes
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
By Gloria Edwards
Johannesburg, South Africa- An East Rand family are traumatised after they found out on Saturday at their little boy's funeral that his grave wasn't big enough for his coffin. Dallyn de Jager, three, drowned last week in the shallow swimming pool at his parents' home in Nigel the day after his birthday. At Dallyn's funeral the family was further traumatised when they had to widen and lengthen the grave before they could bury him.
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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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Ancient Greeks buried their dead with a coin in their hand or mouth to pay Charon, the ferryman who carries the dead across the river Styx and into the afterlife.
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Quote Repository
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.” Longfellow
Grave Epigrams
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I with my offspring here securely rest,
God takes or leaves our comforts as is best.
Prepare my friends, to meet me on that shore
Where soul bereavements shall be felt no more. Dedham, MA 1821 |
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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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