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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
A Taphophilia Thank You...
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Announcements
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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Under Investigation
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 |
January 10, 2007
By Gary V. Murray
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
WORCESTER— Former reserve police officer John P. Stevens stole more than $20,000 from the Shaw-Majercik Funeral Home in Webster, where he worked, but should be found not guilty of setting fire to the funeral parlor in an attempt at covering up the thefts, his lawyer told a Worcester Superior Court jury this morning. |
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Celebrity Deaths
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 |
January 10, 2007
CBC News
Yvonne De Carlo, the Vancouver-born entertainer perhaps best known for her role as matriarch Lily on the television comedy The Munsters, has died at age 84.
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Vandalism
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 |
The Post Chronicle
By Staff
Jan 10, 2007
Police are searching for vandals who destroyed a 100-year-old urn at the Springfield, Ill., tomb of Abraham Lincoln during New Year's weekend. |
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Under Investigation
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Tuesday, 09 January 2007 |
Brandie Kessler
01/08/2007
Officials have confirmed that the body found nine days after Elaine M. Pierson was reported missing is the victim of a homicide, though positive identification of the body is still waiting on dental records.
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Cemetery Technology
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Sunday, 07 January 2007 |
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By Tracy Garcia Staff Writer
WHITTIER - Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary officials are hoping to draw the attention of thousands of freeway motorists who zoom by their business every day by using some of their most cherished and nostalgic memories. |
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Natural Disasters
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Sunday, 07 January 2007 |
By Michelle Thompson
News Leader Pictorial, Briish Columbia, Canada
Jan 06 2007
remains unaffected: Unlikely event of a flooded ground shouldn’t be a concern for those with loved ones buried there
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Forensics
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Sunday, 07 January 2007 |
Forensic Exam Of 16th-Century Remains Reveals Evidence Of Arsenic Poisoning Of Medici Nobility
ROME, Jan. 3, 2007
(AP) Scientists in Italy believe they have uncovered a murder — 400 years after it is thought to have taken place. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, did not die of malaria but were poisoned — by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who was vying for the dukedom.
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Eco-Friendly Burial
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Sunday, 07 January 2007 |
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Scotland on Sunday
Sun 7 Jan 2007 By ANNA MILLAR
IT MAY look like a laundry basket, but this is increasingly the future for those of us who - not to put too fine a point on it - have no future. The wicker coffin is rapidly emerging as the way to carry on being green for eternity. The woven cane caskets don't cost the earth, either in terms of environmental damage or - at around £500 cheaper than a wooden version - hard cash.
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Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks
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Wednesday, 03 January 2007 |
January 3, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) _ Nine more human bones - including some several inches long - were found Wednesday in the city's ongoing search for remains of Sept. 11 victims that were missed in the initial cleanup after the 2001 terrorist attack.
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Thanatology Interests
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Monday, 01 January 2007 |
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Monies raised from the calendar will directly benefit the KAMM foundation dedicated to the caring and assistance of people who are going through the treatment of breast cancer. Proceeds will provide these people assistance with such necessities as child care costs and groceries, to name just two. The primary goal of KAMM is to provide people going through cancer with more opportunities to make their lives better.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
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A nail in the casket is hardly the end for some stars. Instead, their work, as well as their iconic images, continues to appeal to fans who remember them, and to those born long after they died. The 13 icons on our sixth annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list collectively earned $247 million in the last 12 months.
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Bones
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
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GOSHEN, Ind. A human skull found in an old Goshen home may have been used by a men's group for ritualistic initiations of new members during the 19th century.
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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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Each year in the U.S., we bury 180,544,000 pounds of steel, in caskets
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Quote Repository
“The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.” Franz Grillparzer
Grave Epigrams
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Death is a debt to nature due
which I have paid & so must you. Carlisle, MA 1793 |
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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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