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

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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!

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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.

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Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

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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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Family Says Cremation Was Mistake, Sues Hospital PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Sunday, 31 December 2006
Body Misidenitifed, Plaintiffs' Attorney Says
December 27, 2006

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- The family of a man whose body was mistakenly cremated is suing Porter hospital and the Porter County coroner's office. he lawsuit was filed Tuesday, three days after a different family said the same hospital sent the body of a Valparaiso man to the wrong funeral home.
On Jan. 2, 2005, the body of James F. Johnson, 59, was found in his home near Chesterton. The next day, he was misidentified, then cremated in the Porter hospital morgue before his relatives could make funeral arrangements, said one of the family's attorneys, Alexander Woloshansky. "These folks didn't have the benefit of closure," Woloshansky said. "They just didn't have it. And that's what hurts here."

Steven L. Langer, another family attorney, said relatives wanted a report from the hospital. "They wanted assurances the hospital had taken steps to correct the problem," he said. "None of that has happened."

The lawsuit filed in Porter Superior Court names Porter hospital, hospital CEO Ron Winger, Porter County Coroner Roger Kleist and his office, the Porter County Board of Commissioners and the Porter County Council as defendants.

It seeks unspecified damages and claims the defendants were negligent in the handling of a body and its cremation.

Porter spokeswoman Robin Carlascio said the hospital does not comment on pending litigation. The Associated Press left a message with Kleist's office, seeking comment. A recorded message said the coroner's office was closed Wednesday.

According to the suit, Winger instructed Kleist and the funeral home representative, John Evans, to tell the family there had been a mistake, but not to mention the body already had been cremated.

When Johnson's family members, including his wife and his mother, Hazel Johnson, met with Winger, Kleist and Evans, they were told a mistake had occurred and the hospital would investigate, the lawsuit said.

This week in an unrelated case, the family of a Valparaiso man who died Thursday at Porter hospital said that his body was delivered to the wrong funeral home.

The body of Eddie Chappell McDonald was supposed to be taken to Gatling's Chapel in Chicago, but was instead taken to the Garfield Waters Funeral Home several miles away.
Carlascio said the hospital has spoken with the family and was looking into the details.

The family figured out Saturday morning where the body had been taken by using the telephone number provided by the hospital, said McDonald's daughter, Edwina Shields of Valparaiso.

The body was embalmed while the family planned for a cremation, Shields said.

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/10617103/detail.html
 
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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

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“The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

Ernest Becker

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The rising morn cannot insure,
That we shall end the day,
For death stands ready at the door,
To snatch our lives away.

Dedham, MA 1831

 

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