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Buddy finds dead people with his nose

Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 19 March 2006
Buddy gets up every day and can't wait to get to work. No complaining, just a methodical, business-like approach to his job. That's amazing when you consider more often than not Buddy spends his entire day looking for dead people. Buddy, you see, is a six-year-old German shepherd and a "cadaver dog." He is trained to find dead people. Buddy went into a house in the Lakeview section of New Orleans Sunday, hit the brakes and immediately looked toward the ceiling. A short while later, a grim find in the attic -- the mummified remains of a man in a crawl space. This man probably died more than six months ago during Hurricane Katrina. While it's not easy to say, the state medical examiner believes he died a terrible death. Just two days earlier, on Friday, the city police checked the same house and found nothing. Without Buddy's keen nose following up on Sunday, the house would have been torn down, the remains of this man likely swept away with the debris. But now, with DNA testing yet to come, there should be some sense of closure for this man's family. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/03/buddy-finds-dead-people-with-his-nose.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