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Men of Mortuaries Calendar
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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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Richards denies snorting his dad's ashes PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Tuesday, 03 April 2007
London--Keith Richards was joking when he claimed to have snorted his father's ashes along with cocaine, a spokesman said Wednesday. "It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.

Doherty declined to say any more about why Richards made the statement in an interview with NME, a pop music magazine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," the 63-year-old guitarist was quoted as saying.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared ... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive." Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070404/ap_en_ce/people_keith_richards;_ylt=AofNYA21jLvpis3QnVCu99es0NUE

 
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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

According to the Japanese Shinto religion, each person becomes a supernatural "kami" at the time of death. Kami continue to influence the daily lives of the living, one of the reasons ancestors are revered in Shinto homes.
 

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?
 

Quote Repository

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton, Jr.

Grave Epigrams

In prosp'rous life, he felt deaths heavy stroke
Yet, calmly bow'd to what the Lord had spoke;
And left the church, a wife & children dear;
To mourn their loss while he's no longer hear.

1792

 

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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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