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Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
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Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
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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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Lifetime Movie Network - The Green River Killer PDF Print E-mail
Written by Carrie   
Thursday, 20 March 2008
The Green River Killer (Gary Leon Ridgway) known as one of the nation’s most infamous serial killers, murdered for nearly 20 years until Sheriff David Reichert brought him to justice in November of 2001. Watch Lifetime Movie Network’s mini-series of this incredible true story, “The Capture of the Green River Killer” starring Tom Cavanagh, Amy Davidson, Sharon Lawrence, James Russo, and James Marsters. It airs Sunday March 30th and Monday March 31st at 8pm. Check out more information about the movie, cast, exclusive interviews, and “The Capture of the Green River Killer” trailer here: http://www.lmn.tv/movies/lmnop.php?id=MOVE+4198.
 
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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

Each year in the U.S. we bury 28,000,000 pounds of steel in vaults.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Grave Epigrams

Mrs Betsey W. wife of Mr Leonard Fisher died Dec 30 1836 Aged 63 years.

Dear Saviour I thy call obey
Resign to dust this cumberous clay
With sight renewed with joy I'll view
And feast upon thy glories too.

Dedham, MA 1836

 

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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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