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A repository of morbid curiosities:
Thanatology and Taphophile Issues, Cemetery,
Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
A Taphophilia Thank You...
Taphophilia (dot) Com would not be possible without the knowledge, experience and talent of DarkestWeb. From its conception and early development, DarkestWeb was faced with many challenges; from inspiring and motivating, to providing guidance and direction. The continued dedication and support has produced results greater than ever expected, and for this, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.
Announcements
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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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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Sunday, 31 December 2006 |
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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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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
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September 30, 2006 By TOM HAYS, Associated Press
NEW YORK-- A former funeral parlor owner and embalmer accused in a plot to plunder corpses for profit admitted to investigators last year that he and his partner rarely got permission to take body parts for transplants, according to court documents. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
7/23/2006
The Associated Press
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) � The city of New Orleans' cemetery division is down to a post-Katrina skeleton crew � and that means there are not city workers available to bury the dead.
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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
“O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.” Aeschylus
Grave Epigrams
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Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare!
Bleste be ye man that spares thes stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones. William Shakespeare |
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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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