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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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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Monday, 19 June 2006 |
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By Adam Goldman
Associated Press
NEW YORK - After Alistair Cooke’s death in the early morning of March 30, 2004, he was wheeled out of his Upper East Side apartment on a collapsible gurney and whisked away into the darkness.
Three days later, Cooke returned home in a small, cardboard box. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
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By Steve Phillips
D'Iberville, MS
Quave Cemetery in D'Iberville was the site of a simple ceremony Friday morning. Harrison County's coroner helped oversee the re-interment of nine caskets into five above-ground tombs.
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Bones
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Wednesday, 07 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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Hurricane Katrina
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
By TOM WILEMONA
Biloxi, MS
A 14th and previously unknown skeleton, this one holding rosary beads, was discovered in the burial ground at the site of Moran Art Studio. The remains were unearthed by Hurricane Katrina, just as Hurricane Camille had unearthed the other skeletons. A team from the University of Southern Mississippi retrieved the skeleton from the edge of a concrete slab in March.
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Hurricane Rita
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Sunday, 14 May 2006 |
May 10, 2006
Vermillion Parish, Louisiana
Cemeteries in Vermilion Parish are still in disarray after Hurricane Rita shuffled tombs in many graveyards. There are crypts where loved ones are not yet at peace in Mouton Cove.
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Hurricane Katrina
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
The Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state health department is turning over responsibility for identifying and releasing the bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina over to the Orleans Parish coroner.
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Hurricane Katrina
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Friday, 31 March 2006 |
By Kamika Dunlap, STAFF WRITER
NEW ORLEANS - Patrick Sanders uses mascara, eyebrow pencils and a fingernail file to do whatever it takes to give a body a lifelike appearance.
He strives for perfection in the art and science of preservation, using his skills as an embalmer. |
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Sunday, 19 March 2006 |
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By Brad Hamilton February 26, 2006 -- Welcome to the Cutting Room, the heart of the gruesome body-snatching operation that allegedly saw ghouls secretly carve up at least a thousand bodies in chop shops across the city sell the parts for millions of dollars. |
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Friday, 17 March 2006 |
Alistair Cooke's bones allegedly sold to ring
A family-owned funeral home may have taken cash kickbacks to look the other way when a body-parts ring plundered the corpses of Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke and other people, according to two law enforcement officials close to the case.
The officials said in recent interviews that investigators were targeting New York Mortuary Service Inc., the Manhattan funeral parlor that handled Cooke's body after he died in 2004. They suspect the business conspired with the alleged ringleader - a former oral surgeon named Michael Mastromarino - by alerting him whenever "they had a body that they could cut up without anyone knowing," one official said. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Tuesday, 07 March 2006 |
March 07 2006
By Allen Johnson
Six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, bodies are still being pulled out of wrecked and rotting homes.
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Hurricane Rita
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Saturday, 25 February 2006 |
Lake Charles, LA
by Rhonda Kitchens
The Corps of Engineers is working across Southwest Louisiana, but it was skeletons unearthed in a North Lake Charles cemetery that has one crew member wanting to go the extra mile. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Thursday, 23 February 2006 |
February 23, 2006
From Jacqui Goddard
Port Sulphur--MIKE MUDGE will not be raising his spirits at the Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans today. He is too busy laying the dead back to rest. |
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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 idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.” Ernest Becker
Grave Epigrams
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Thou wast cut down in Bloom of life
A faithful friend & Loving Wife
A tender Mother good & Kind
With her sweet Babe by Death consined 1778 |
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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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