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April 29, 2008 Friend's slaying inspires `Sacred Stones' art series
August 02, 2007 Tombstone Art Served A Purpose In Its Time
April 25, 2007 After mapping cemetery, Lewiston students win national award
February 02, 2007 Why Ancient Greeks are Always Nude
September 26, 2006 "Grave Tales" Halloween Cemetery Crawl
August 21, 2006 College grad conducts study of old Jewish cemetery
August 20, 2006 Granite statue from China graces Highland Cemetery
March 31, 2006 Rest in Pieces
March 14, 2006 Students will see Big Easy in new light
January 20, 2006 No Charges After Black Cemetery is Bulldozed
August 06, 2005 Demand for granite could refuel quarrys comeback
June 22, 2005 Lost Soul
June 17, 2005 Cemetery enlivens Civil War studies
June 02, 2005 Grave Diggers
January 02, 2005 Photos capture soul of cemetery angels
December 07, 2004 Americas dead rich buy a tomb with a view
November 11, 2004 Settler finally gets his tombstone back
October 28, 2004 Angels in stone Guardians of the dead
October 03, 2004 Gravestone Girls dying for people to learn from cemeteries
September 09, 2004 Stanford memorial resurfaces
August 23, 2004 Where The Famous Are Dying To Get In
August 21, 2004 Okla. Police Search for Headstones Home
August 17, 2004 T-shirt sale to benefit cemetery project
July 06, 2004 Written in stone: Markers for dead give insight to life
June 28, 2004 Minisink author records the stories old cemeteries tell
June 18, 2004 To Die For - A one-day symposium on Funeral Customs of the Victorian Age
June 14, 2004 Taking Lifes Final Exit
June 13, 2004 Cemetery is for the living, too
June 13, 2004 Abandoned graveyards are his turf
June 13, 2004 For Reagan mortician, the honor of a lifetime
June 05, 2004 Maintenance problems plague the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery
June 05, 2004 Widower miffed over unfinished mausoleum
June 05, 2004 Military Marker Removed From Cemetery
June 05, 2004 Beleaguered Carver cemetery sells for $200,000
June 05, 2004 Family in bitter fight over cemetery plot
May 31, 2004 Memorable epitaphs abound in Minneapolis cemetery
May 30, 2004 Mystery Lingers After Burial
May 30, 2004 Group puts love, sympathy in every stitch of infant burial gowns
May 30, 2004 Short Of cemetery Plots
May 30, 2004 Funeral homes, cemeteries squabble over prepaid services
May 28, 2004 Gettysburg, other parks crimped by cutbacks
May 28, 2004 Tiptoeing Through the Graveyard
May 27, 2004 Give heroes families privacy
May 27, 2004 Clergy identify, memorialize those buried in psychiatric hospitals graves
May 27, 2004 At mortuary in Kuwait, soldiers live among death
May 27, 2004 Last detail: Mortuary unit cares for fallen
May 27, 2004 Skeletal remains
May 27, 2004 New Mandai Crematorium to replace Mount Vernon in July
May 27, 2004 Road expansion nears cemetery
May 27, 2004 The business of funerals now includes casket stores
 
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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

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