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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the 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.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

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!

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 with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture 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."
Former Classics IV singer Dennis Yost dies at 65
Celebrity Deaths
Monday, 08 December 2008

By LISA CORNWELL

CINCINNATI (AP) — Dennis Yost, lead singer of the 1960s group the Classics IV, has died in an Ohio hospital. He was 65. Yost died Sunday at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, about 30 miles northwest of Cincinnati. He died of respiratory failure, hospital spokeswoman Marielou Vierling said. The Classics IV's hits included "Spooky," "Stormy" and "Traces of Love." Yost had been in nursing homes since suffering a brain injury sustained in a 2005 fall, said Joe Glickman, the singer's friend and biographer .


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Bacon’s Corpse on Display in London
Exhibits
Monday, 08 December 2008
LONDON—An artwork featuring a photograph of the painter Francis Bacon taken in a Spanish morgue just hours after his death is to go on display at the Colony Room Club, a Soho bar popular among the London art world that is under threat of closing down, the Guardian reports. At the artwork's center is the fresh corpse of Bacon in a transparent body bag — perhaps an allusion to a comment Bacon reportedly once made to a bartender at the Colony Room: “When I’m dead, put me in a plastic bag and throw me in the gutter.”
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Lawmakers urged to reform rules on funeral contracts
Laws and Legislation
Monday, 08 December 2008
By RICK ALM

Missouri law failed prepaid funeral industry consumers in a scandal this year and must be reformed, state lawmakers were told at a public hearing in Kansas City. Sen. Delbert Scott, a Lowry City Republican and chairman of the General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Preneed Funeral Contracts, thinks reform will come in the 2009 session and has introduced Senate Bill 1 as a starting point for that debate.

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Burglars Finding Easy Pickings At Graveyards
Strange and Unusual
Monday, 08 December 2008
RANCHO PALOS VERDES ― Burglars nationwide have found easy pickings at cemeteries, where unattended cars are sitting ducks while the occupants are at gravesides, it was reported Saturday. The Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes has had 10 reported vehicle burglaries in the last two years, according to the L.A. Sheriff's Department reports. The most common tactic was for thieves to either smash a window or enter unlocked cars to swipe the property inside.
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Congratulations to ALEX!
Site News
Saturday, 06 December 2008
Taphophila (dot) Com would like to take a moment to recognize one of its most active members.

ALEX has spent countless hours emailing links to news articles to be posted on Taph. This website would not be possible without the support of members like ALEX. As the member who has submitted more news stories than any other member this year, Taphophilia (dot) Com will be sending ALEX a copy of  the latest Images of Amerca series publication, Green-Wood Cemetery by Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, courtesy of Arcadia Publishing! Thank you ALEX for everything you do! Your hard work and dedication is appreciated by our readers! Job well done!
 
Assisted suicide shown on television for first time
Euthanasia
Saturday, 06 December 2008
The final moments of a man suffering motor neurone disease who chose assisted suicide at a controversial Swiss euthanasia clinic are to be screened on British television for the first time.

By Richard Savill

Craig Ewert, 59, a retired university professor, opted for assisted suicide rather than spend the rest of his life locked in a "living tomb."  The final moments of terminally ill patients have been broadcast on British television before, but never in the case of an assisted suicide. Television watchdogs expressed concern that the programme, Right to Die, which will be shown on Sky Real Lives on Wednesday night, would promote euthanasia.

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Town will repair, preserve rare crypt
Preservation
Tuesday, 02 December 2008
By Ethan Forman

DANVERS, MA — The town, preservationists and cemetery commissioners are taking steps to preserve the brick receiving crypt in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Such crypts, which are rare nowadays, are also known as a "winter crypts," once used for temporary storage of bodies when the ground was frozen and graves could not be dug, according to a letter from Town Archivist Richard Trask. The crypt's brickwork and new wooden roof will cost $10,000, and contractor Colonial Remodeling began the job last week, said Susan Fletcher, assistant director of Planning and Human Services.

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Woman doesn’t want rediscovered graves moved
Relocation
Tuesday, 02 December 2008
By MEGAN MATTEUCCI

Clayton County, GA -- For Betty Bowden, thoughts of moving her family’s Clayton County cemetery are as painful as memories of when her great-grandfather’s church was set on fire. The 72-year-old Atlanta woman argues a proposal to dig up her ancestors’ remains and bury them in another graveyard about a mile away is motivated by racism and greed. “It’s painful that you really don’t know where your family is,” Bowden said. “When I went last week, I was devastated when I saw they made the graves so you can’t get to it.”
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Uncle Ho’s mausoleum photo fetches $1M at auction
Famous Graves
Monday, 01 December 2008
by Chu Thu Hao
 
A photo of the mausoleum of late President Ho Chi Minh sold for US$1 million at an auction Saturday in southern Kien Giang Province. The auction was part of a festival to honor generous contributors to the province’s Sponsorial Association for Poor Patients. The event also marked the fifth anniversary of the organization. Photographer Tran Lam, also the association chairman, took the photo in May 2006. It was sold Saturday to the Tan Tao Investment and Industry Corporation.
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Preservation workers revive cemeteries of New Orleans
Restoration
Sunday, 30 November 2008
BY MARY FOSTER

NEW ORLEANS -- On a recent morning, Jeffrey Scott stood before Marie Laveau's tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, shaking a cigarette out of a pack to leave as an offering for the famous voodoo queen. Scott was placing the offerings with others -- Mardi Gras beads, flowers, candles and change -- in front of the white Greek Revival tomb, covered with red Xs that some believe will move Laveau's spirit's to grant a wish. "This is better than Bourbon Street," said Scott, 22, who came to New Orleans from London with some friends. "My friends at home will freak when they hear I saw this. They were saying how could I visit a cemetery, but wait until they see my pictures."
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Keister returns with cemetery guide
Media Reviews
Sunday, 30 November 2008
By GREG LANGLEY

Douglas Keister loves to meander through cemeteries. He’s a photographer, and he snaps pictures while he’s ambling among the tombstones. His affection for cemetery exploration led to Stories in Stone (2006), a field guide-sized volume that included information on styles of crypts, mausoleums, tombstone inscriptions, symbols and secret society insignia on headstones and more. It was all illustrated with his bright, color photography, nicely bound and printed on good quality slick paper.
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You Can Come and Go. They’re Staying Awhile.
Historic Cemetery
Sunday, 30 November 2008
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Houston funeral museum adds Vatican exhibit
Exhibits
Saturday, 29 November 2008
By MONICA RHOR

HOUSTON — Inside one of Houston's best-kept secrets, soft music and hushed words are piped over the sound system, the sweet scent of flowers leaves a faint trail in the air — and the business of death is saluted. Welcome to the National Museum of Funeral History, a warehouse-like building in a working-class pocket north of Houston, where exhibits extol everything from the birth of embalming to the mourning rituals of the Victorian Era.

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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

Each year in the U.S., we bury 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid, which includes formaldehyde
 

Taphophiles Speak

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Quote Repository

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

Franz Grillparzer

Grave Epigrams

Hear lies cut down in youth,
One who loved & obeyed the truth
As you pass by, Look on & see
Prepare for death and follow me.

1789

 

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