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Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
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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
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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Final remains of Flight 587 crash victims laid to rest PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 06 May 2007
Family members of those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 are expressing relief that the last remains of their loved ones are at rest. Relatives attended a dedication ceremony today at a cemetery in The Bronx, New York. That's where the remains were entombed on Friday in two granite and marble crypts in a mausoleum. Although all 265 victims were identified, there were hundreds of fragments that either were unidentified or never claimed.

Flight 587 crashed in a Queens neighborhood after taking off from Kennedy Airport on November 12th, 2001. Many of the victims were Dominican-born New York residents on their way to visit their native land.

The crash killed 260 people on board and five people on the ground, further rattling a city still shaken by the attacks on the World Trade Center just two months earlier.

http://www.wbir.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=44913
 
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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

Michigan is home to one Presidential gravesite, Gerald Ford.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

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Grave Epigrams

If to be useful is our beings end and aim,
Then this high excellence, our friend might claim.
For this she lived, for this she spent her breath,
Nor ceased her acts of kindness, but with death.

Dedham. MA 1841

 

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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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