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Deadgirl Has Temporarily Arisen For A Quick Update

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 31 August 2005
I'm sure everyone has noticed that news postings have been scarce here recently, which is quite unusual for the site. Just for the record, your "News-Exhuming-Deadgirl" is not a slacker and hasn't become bored and abandoned you! I've have noticed that several of our well-known and respected site members have been making a valiant effort to step up and give me a hand with submissions. I'd like to thank Lolligoth, Mortuus, Perilous_Cheryl, QueenOfTheDead and our friendly "anonymous" submitter for being loyal to Taphophilia and posting such interesting news. You guys are great, and I appreciate the help! If I've neglected to mention any other person who helped, I apologize... I wanted to apologize for my lack of activity with Taph over the last couple of months. I am in the "limbo" process of moving. Most of our belongings are in portable storage, in local access storage or scattered throughout friends' garages. It will be a relief when our new home is ready in a few days, so my children and I will no longer be temporarily displaced and feel like refugees! I would blame exhaustion for my absence, but that would be far from the truth. Let's just say "DIAL UP", which is fairly self-explanatory. I receive around 500 emails each day for Taph, and trying to access those has been quite an adventure and also very time consuming. For a short explanation about this, I have to download email into Outlook and then to respond, I have to use webmail. It's complicated, but it helps me to appreciate my Extreme DSL service more than ever, and it also makes me hate this certain dial up ISP that won't let me send email from other ISPs through their service!! (I won't mention any names!) Things should be back to normal in a couple of weeks, once we get moved and settled in. I am looking forward to catching up with my Taph friends, posting in the forums and spending my spare time digging up news of the dead for the morbidly curious! Most of all I'm looking forward to grabbing my camera out of storage (or wherever I've put it for safekeeping, I forget) and heading for my favorite cemetery. I'm counting the days! Dark Day! Dead-tired Deadgirl

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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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Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

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“

I will not plead
If I deny, I am condemned already,
In courts where ghosts appear as witnesses
And swear men's lives away. If I confess,
Then I confess a lie, to buy a life,
Which is not life, but only death in life.

”

William Wadsworth Longfellow