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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
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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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES—Lionel Mark Smith, a stage, movie and TV actor who was a regular in David Mamet's productions, has died. He was 62. Smith died of cancer at his Inglewood home on Feb. 13, a friend, Paula Fins, told the Los Angeles Times. "He never made anything up, he always told the truth, and every scene and every project was better for his presence," Mamet wrote the newspaper. Smith appeared in seven Mamet films and many of his plays, including one production that created a controversy in Los Angeles.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
By Daniel Nicholas
Dungeons & Dragons fans will surely be saddened by the fact that Gay Gygax, the popular game's first edition's co-creator, died today. Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular role-playing game franchises of all times! Also known as D&D, the game was originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and first published more than thirty years ago, in 1974.
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Under Investigation
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Company accused of raiding trusts says it wasn't 1st to tap funds
By Jon Murray
An Indiana cemetery company accused of pilfering its trusts alleges in a new court filing that the previous owners also routinely raided the accounts. Memory Gardens Management Corp. filed the allegations in response to state officials' accusations that the New Jersey man who bought the company in 2004 drained as much as $27 million from its trust accounts. That money was collected from customers and set aside in funds for perpetual care of cemetery grounds and for prepaid burial services.
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Cadavers
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
By Jonathan D. Silver
Pittsburgh - Prosecutors in Dr. Cyril H. Wecht's federal fraud trial yesterday trotted out reams of documents in an effort to show that unclaimed bodies were sent from the Allegheny County morgue to Carlow University in 2004 and 2005. As part of its 41-count indictment, the government claims that the former coroner improperly traded cadavers to Carlow so students could perform autopsies in exchange for free lab space to conduct autopsies for his private business.
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Funeral Industry
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
By David M. Brown
Pittsburgh - Dan Olesinski clears snow off the ground until he locates a flat bronze marker on the grave of a toddler buried decades ago. Next to it, the interment crew had just lowered a coffin into a concrete vault at the bottom of a newly dug trench. A 500-pound vault lid hangs from the arm of a backhoe. Wind cuts across the cemetery, swirling up snow, as the backhoe operator guides the lid onto the vault.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late famed actor Marlon Brando, has died from pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, an attorney said Saturday. He was 49. Brando died Saturday morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, said David Seeley, an attorney representing Marlon Brando's estate.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES, CA -- It's as common in Hollywood as the rags-to-riches tale: stories of stars who died young. Actors Heath Ledger, who died Tuesday in New York, and Brad Renfro, who passed just one week earlier, join the tragic ranks of artists, actors and musicians who died before their 30th birthdays, often during the prime of their careers.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
By Molly Lopez
The Manhattan funeral home handling Heath Ledger's services has been the discreet institution of choice for families of celebrities ranging from Jackie O. to Aaliyah. A brief history of the stars that have been laid to rest at the 110-year-old Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel over the years:
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Celebrity Deaths
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
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(NEW YORK) — Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at a downtown Manhattan residence, and police said drugs may have been a factor. He was 28. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.
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Famous Graves
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
By Ben Nuckols
BALTIMORE (AP) - Undeterred by a controversy over the tribute's origins, a mysterious visitor placed three red roses and a half-filled bottle of French cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday morning before stealing away into the darkness.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 |
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He was 84. Melvin died of cancer Thursday at his home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, said Amalia Melvin, his wife of 64 years.
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Celebrity Deaths
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
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Chess master Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players in history, has died, a spokesman for the World Chess Federation confirmed to CNN Friday. He was 64. No cause of death was given. Fischer became the first American world chess champion when he defeated Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a legendary encounter during the Cold War in 1972.
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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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In Ghana's Akan culture, "fantasy coffins" have been fashioned in the shapes of chickens, Mercedes and outboard motors.
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Quote Repository
“Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.” Benjamin Franklin1706-1790
Grave Epigrams
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My Saviour calls and I must go, And leave you here my friends below; But soon my God will call for thee, Prepare for death and follow me. |
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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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