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What's New at Arcadia
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.
Announcements
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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Ancient Burial
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Ancient Egypt
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Autopsy
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Bones
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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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Body Donations
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Burial
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Articles about making final preperations for yourself or a deceased family member
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Historic Cemetery
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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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Link of the Day
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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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The Body Farm
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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
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.” Voltaire
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