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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
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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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Alternatives
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Ancient Burial
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Archaeology
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Autopsy
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Bayview Crematorium
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Articles about Bayview Crematorium in Seabrook, NH, where investigators found human remains inappropriately handled in 2005. The discovery prompted an investigation and criminal charges for the owner and his employees. The accusations of corpse mishandling, fraudulent documentation, illegal creamations, and the discovery of unidentified cremains and improper body waste storage caused lawmakers to propose regulations on the industry.
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Biomedical Tissue Services
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Articles about a tissue procurement company called Biomedical Tissue Services, founded by Michael Mastromarino. The New Jersey-based company is accused of illegally harvesting body parts from funeral homes across the city and selling them for big profits.
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Bones
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Burial
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Cadavers
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Cemetery Technology
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Celebrity Deaths
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Cremains
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Eco-Friendly Burial
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Exhumation
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Famous Graves
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Final Planning
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Articles about making final preperations for yourself or a deceased family member
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Follow Up
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Freedom of Expression
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Funeral Home
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Grave Mistakes
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Articles about cemetery plots in the news
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Grave Robbers
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Harvesting
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Hauntings
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Historic Cemetery
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History
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Industry Lawsuits
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Hurricane Katrina
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Articles relating to the costliest and deadliest hurricane in United States history, which struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005. The tropical storm made a first landfall between Hallandale Beach and Aventura, Florida before moving into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthening to a Category 5 storm. The downgraded yet intense Category 3 storm made landfall near the Louisiana/Mississippi border causing extensive damage, catastrophic flooding and chaos. It's aftermath left a confirmed death toll of over 1800 people, with more than 700 people missing a year after the storm.
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Hurricane Rita
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Articles about the fourth-most intense hurricane to strike the United States in 2005. The Category 3 storm made landfall in September 2005 near the Texas/Louisiana border. The once-Category 5 storm had a low death rate but was stronger than Hurricane Katrina, which had devastated Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast three weeks earlier. A mandatory evacuation order was placed for New Orleans; the storm surge breached the levees and caused additional flooding in the already devestated city.
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Interment Errors
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Link of the Day
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Military
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Mummification
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Natural Disasters
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Pet Cemetery
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Presidential Burials
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Articles about the history and rituals of Presidential Burials.
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Relocation
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Restoration
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Seepe Crematorium
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Sept. 11th Terrorist Attacks
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Articles about the forensic technologies used to identify the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
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Serial Killers
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Strange and Unusual
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Taphophile Interests
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Thanatology Interests
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The Body Farm
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Tourism
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Trial Verdicts
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Tri-State Crematory
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Articles about the Tri-State Crematory, the subject of a national incident in Noble, Georgia in 2002, which lead to litigation and criminal prosecution of the owner's son, Ray Brent Marsh. Marsh was the individual responsible for the unspeakable crime, which involved over three hundred bodies that had been consigned to the crematorium for proper disposal, but instead were dumped on the crematorium's site.
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Under Construction
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Unsafe Graves
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Vampirism
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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
Quote Repository
“Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.” Benjamin Franklin1706-1790
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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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