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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
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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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Under Investigation
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
By Frank Donnelly
The former Staten Islander who coordinated Anna Nicole Smith's lavish funeral in the Bahamas last week has been fired for discussing the burial with an Advance reporter. Robert Cherubini, 35, is threatening to file a wrongful-termination lawsuit against his employer, Service Corporation International (SCI), after being axed Wednesday for allegedly breaking a confidentiality agreement by talking about the ex-Playboy centerfold's elaborate funeral proceedings, his lawyer, Bruce G. Behrins of Clifton, said yesterday.
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Funeral Industry
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
EVERETT, Wash. -- Funeral homes and the Snohomish County medical examiner's office are having to find larger equipment like cots and power hoists to accommodate a growing number of deceased obese people. The trend has led to the use of bigger cots, larger cremation and embalming facilities, and more staff and power hoists to properly care for overweight people who die.
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Harvesting
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
By Robert Jablon, Sign-on San Diego
The Union Tribune
LOS ANGELES, CA – Three years after authorities began investigating a cadaver program at the University of California, Los Angeles, a former school official and an associate face charges of illegally trading body parts that had been donated for medical research. Henry Reid, 57, of Anaheim, who directed UCLA's willed body program from 1997 to 2004, and Ernest Nelson, 49, of Rancho Cucamonga, who operated a business transporting body parts, were arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy and grand theft.
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Famous Graves
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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By Sandy Stuart
BEDMINSTER TWP. – A Trump National Golf Club proposal that could have redefined the phrase “going to the chapel” has been buried. Real estate mogul Donald Trump has dropped plans to build a “chapel” containing burial vaults along the first fairway of his golf club off Lamington Road. At a township Planning Board meeting last Thursday, March 1, Trump National project manager Edward Russo said his 61-year-old boss isn’t interested at this time in constructing a Trump family mausoleum.
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Corpse Abuse
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
Veteran's remains arrived at airport in soggy, torn cardboard box
Denise-Marie Balona
Sentinel Staff Writer
Ronnie Groves was a Vietnam veteran, generous neighbor and doting grandfather who died after a heart attack last week. The family of the Palm Coast man said he deserved respect. Instead, they say, Groves' body was shipped naked from Daytona Beach International Airport in a cardboard box that along the way was torn, punctured and possibly left out in the rain at an airport in Atlanta.
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Bones
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Wednesday, 07 March 2007 |
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CONOWINGO, Md. — A cauldron found last week with a human skull and some bones inside may be part of a Palo ritual, an African religion rarely practiced in the United States, state police said. Residents discovered the cauldron in a wooded area near Conowingo last week. Inside the cauldron were a human skull, two human femurs, toy handcuffs, turtle shells, a cross, feathers, a plastic skull, animal jaw bones, purple and red cloth and two small statues.
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Hurricane Katrina
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
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KACT3 NEWS
NEW ORLEANS -- A crew loading hurricane debris onto a truck found a human skull and bones, and investigators are trying to determine if they are from a victim of Hurricane Katrina.
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Ancient Egypt
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Saturday, 17 February 2007 |
BY KATHERINE CALOS
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
PHILADELPHIA -- Quick, name a pharaoh. Was it King Tut who came to mind? Ever since the golden boy's burial chamber was discovered in the 1920s, and especially since his treasures toured the nation in the 1970s, the boy king has been the one people remember from the Golden Age of Egypt. Now, he's back.
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Corpse Abuse
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
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LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville funeral director has been arrested after police say he was keeping a decomposing corpse in a room with no refrigeration. Authorities had already suspended Nathaniel Anderson's license last summer.
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Alternatives
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
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The Marlborough Express NEW ZEALAND--Plans to bury human ashes in an underwater reef in the Marlborough Sounds have not been fully revealed to the public, a Karaka Point woman says. An advertisement for resource consent application to build several artificial reefs is misleading because it fails to mention that one of the reefs will be a controversial eco-burial site, says Karaka Point resident Loreen Brehaut. |
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Media Reviews
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Thursday, 15 February 2007 |
Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility -- the Body Farm -- a quarter-century ago. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career, Death's Acre.
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Editorials
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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Fallon's Blog Society is rife with misconceptions, or myths, about serial killing and the killers themselves. Everyone has an opinion on the subject, and most of those opinions can be said to stem from popular culture. Serial killing is a very big industry (Egger, 2002). Unfortunately, however, the industry isn’t so much concerned with truth and accuracy as it is with selling the ideas for as much as possible. As a result, most of what we like to believe we know about serial murder is inaccurate. |
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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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Mark Gruenwald, the influential Marvel Comics editor who helped create Captain America, wanted his ashes mixed with ink and printed into a comic book after his death. His wife followed his wishes, and his remains were printed into a special edition poster of 'Squadron Supreme' in 1996.
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Quote Repository
“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?” Logan Pearsall Smith
Grave Epigrams
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time cuts down all
both great & small. 1757 |
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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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