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Funeral Industry and Death Related News.
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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!
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!
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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Famous Graves
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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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Restoration
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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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Media Reviews
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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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Historic Cemetery
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
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By SETH KUGEL
NY -- A lot of people live in New York, which is part of what makes the city so great. But it comes with a corollary that’s a bit of a downer: a lot of people die there, too. Luckily, back in the mid-19th century, someone had the foresight to set aside some future prime real estate for some pretty cool cemeteries, among them Green-Wood in Brooklyn, Woodlawn in the Bronx and Calvary in Queens. They’re all worth a visit, but for different reasons: Green-Wood has the most beautiful grounds, Woodlawn has the most intriguing monuments, and Calvary has the best views.
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Exhibits
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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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Memorabilia
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
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LONDON (AP) - A 1911 payroll sheet bearing the name 'E. Rigby' may fetch $750,000 for a charity that Paul McCartney befriended. Reporting from London -- Eleanor Rigby: fact or fiction? That question, which has bedeviled Beatles' fans for decades, may be answered in part by a 1911 hospital payroll sheet to be auctioned in London today. The document, sent by Paul McCartney in 1990 to the director of a music charity who had asked for funding, contains the signature of a scullery maid named "E. Rigby" who worked in a Liverpool hospital.
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Eco-Friendly Burial
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
By Madelaine Logan
FUNERAL director Judith McGrath-Colquhoun has the ideal final wish for those wanting to save the planet - an eco-friendly coffin that puts a whole new meaning to “ashes to ashes”. She expects the industrial-strength cardboard creations will attract consumers who want to reduce their carbon footprint after ceasing to walk this earth. Made of 97% recycled fibres, the coffin emits less than half the carbon dioxide produced by fibreboard during cremation.
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Military
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
By Melissa Nelson
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man's quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II's bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead in history. Researchers used ground-penetrating radar, tediously reviewed thousands of military documents and interviewed hundreds of others to find 139 graves. There, they say, lie the remains of men who died 65 years ago out in the Pacific Ocean on Tarawa Atoll.
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Cemetery Technology
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
By LISA ABEND
Three of Santiago Pérez's relatives lie in the cemetery of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a city just outside Barcelona. Nonbeliever that he is, Pérez doesn't visit their graves often. But he was recently there for a funeral and found himself impressed with the latest addition: a glittering expanse of solar panels that now runs along the top of the grave walls into which Spaniards bury coffins and urns alike. "If you're one of those people who thinks all cemeteries should look like castles, draped in shadows, then maybe you won't like this one," the 46-year-old pet shop owner admits. "But I think it looks modern."
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Trial Verdicts
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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RED BLUFF, Calif.—A woman accused of cremating her 84-year-old mother in her backyard has pleaded guilty to stealing her benefits and disposing her remains outside of a cemetery.
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Ancient Egypt
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
On Nov. 26, 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter made a small hole in a sealed doorway and, holding up a candle, shed light onto King Tutankhamen’s tomb in Luxor, Egypt, for the first time in more than 3,000 years.
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Exhumation
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
By Jan Cienski
Warsaw, Poland -- Polish prosecutors on Tuesday exhumed the body of wartime leader-in-exile Wladyslaw Sikorski from a vault in Krakow cathedral to try to determine whether he died in a 1943 air crash or was assassinated. General Sikorski, his country’s exiled prime minister and commander in chief while Poland was occupied by the Nazis, was killed on July 4, 1943 after the Liberator bomber in which he was flying crashed into the sea seconds after taking off from the British colony of Gibraltar.
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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 30 million board feet of hardwoods, including tropical woods, in caskets
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Quote Repository
“By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.” Alexander Pope 1688-1744
Grave Epigrams
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A wife, a Friend, a Mother Deir with her deer Babe Lies buryed here In bloom of Life and Useful days The summons Came ye Soul Obeys. Dedham, MA 1779 |
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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.
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