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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
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Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
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Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
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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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Hurricane Katrina
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
They are Hurricane Katrina's other victims: the coffins washed away by the storm's floodwaters. The mission to recover these bodies is one of the largest in U.S. history.
January 22, 2006
By Matthew Brown
A coffin in Cameron Parish was picked up and carried more than 33 miles by Hurricane Rita's storm surge before it landed beneath a highway overpass. In St. Bernard Parish, 80 tombs were broken open or washed away at a single graveyard, the Merrit Cemetery in Violet, during Katrina.
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Hurricane Katrina
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Sunday, 12 February 2006 |
City to Take Custody of Unclaimed Storm Victims
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
February 11, 2006
NEW ORLEANS -- Inside a fleet of refrigerated trucks parked an hour west of here lie the bodies of more than 200 unidentified or unclaimed victims of Hurricane Katrina. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Saturday, 11 February 2006 |
February 11, 2006
By The Associated Press and The Washington Post
NEW ORLEANS — Nearly six months after Hurricane Katrina, more than 1,300 bodies have been found, but no one can determine the true death toll.
Hundreds of people are missing, and some probably were washed into the Gulf of Mexico, drowned when their fishing boats sank, swept into Lake Pontchartrain or alligator-infested swamps, or buried under crushed homes, said Dr. Louis Cataldie, Louisiana medical examiner. |
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 |
Feb. 2, 2006
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press Writer
PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Five months after Hurricane Katrina, a man and woman whose identities are still a mystery were laid to rest side-by-side Thursday, mourned by complete strangers in the first of what could be many such burials to come. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Wednesday, 18 January 2006 |
Medical examiner wants search to resume in hardest-hit areas
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- More than 3,200 people are officially still unaccounted for nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and the state medical examiner wants the search to resume for those missing from the most devastated neighborhoods. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Friday, 30 December 2005 |
Using bone samples, group expects 100 percent success rate
Thursday, December 29, 2005 Posted: 1803 GMT (0203 HKT)
The International Commission on Missing Persons is testing bone samples from Katrina victims.
SPECIAL REPORT
Louisiana officials working to identify the last 170 unknown victims of Hurricane Katrina are getting help from seasoned Bosnian DNA experts. |
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Sunday, 06 November 2005 |
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TORONTO (CP) - Some Canadians who received transplants of bone, skin or tendons need to be tested for infectious diseases like HIV and hepatitis after it was discovered the U.S. supplier of the products may have illegally procured them from corpses at funeral homes. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Sunday, 09 October 2005 |
By Betsy V. Swenson
Pontchartrain Newspapers
SLIDELL - As Hurricane Katrina swept water through homes and businesses in the Slidell area, her storm surge also disturbed the quietest of resting places - the city's cemeteries. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Sunday, 09 October 2005 |
Friday, October 7, 2005; 7:15 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- Within weeks of the attack on the World Trade Center, the public knew a lot about many of the Sept. 11 victims _ their families, their jobs, their commute, even some of the intimate details of their final moments. The victims' families mobilized with remarkable effectiveness to make sure their loved ones were found and their stories told. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Friday, 07 October 2005 |
By Matt Daily
October 7, 2005
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The tomb of 18th Century voodoo queen Marie Leveau and graves of other famed artists and musicians have been unscathed in New Orleans' most famous "city of the dead," despite fears the flood waters from two hurricanes would destroy above-ground graves and scatter the remains of the long deceased. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Tuesday, 04 October 2005 |
Thursday, September 29, 2005
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using tiny computer chips to keep track of unidentified remains. |
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Hurricane Katrina
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Saturday, 01 October 2005 |
By SCOTT MARSHALL and ROBIN FITZGERALD
SUN HERALD
GULFPORT - Forensic experts have implanted computer chips in the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims to help identify the hundreds left dead in South Mississippi and Louisiana. |
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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 Egyptians used nitre, a naturally occurring potassium nitrite, to cure the bodies of the dead. Those who could afford it received elaborate embalming, with palm wine and perfume; the poor were injected with a cheap preservative.
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Quote Repository
“For thee, who mindful of th' unhonour'd Dead Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate,” Thomas Gray 1750 from Elegy Wr
Grave Epigrams
What thought no mournful kindred stand
Around the solemn bier,
No parents wring the trembling hand,
Or drop the silent tear. To costly oak adorned with art
My weary limbs enclose,
No friends impart a winding sheet
To deck my last repose. North Wingfield, England 1794 |
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The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.
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