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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
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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.
Grave Mistakes
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Date Item Title
May 05, 2008 Mystery deepens over German poet Schiller's skull
March 04, 2008 Boy Has To Be Buried Again
October 10, 2007 Man in wrong grave had been homeless
July 15, 2006 ‘Mistake’ angers daughter
June 21, 2006 Father discovers son's coffin just 6 inches underground
June 10, 2006 Husband Claims Wife's Body Removed From Cemetery
June 03, 2006 Family searches for mother's burial spot
May 25, 2006 Baby's corpse mistakenly buried with twins
June 14, 2005 Students Find Remains Missing From Under Tombstones
May 16, 2005 Family Gets Mothers Day Shock At Cemetery
March 11, 2005 Wrong Corpse Lawsuit
 
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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

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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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The Men of Mortuaries 2008 Calendar is now available! All sale proceeds benefit KAMMCARES, a breast cancer foundation.

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