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Graveyards of Chicago:
The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski. Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Green-Wood Cemetery Arcadia Publishing announces the release of Alexandra Mosca's historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery and to browse other available titles!


Men of Mortuaries Calendar
To purchase your 2008 calendar, learn more about the KAMMCARES Foundation, or to be featured in the 2009 calendar, please visit Men of Mortuaries.

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers
For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints, Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture
with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman is now
available. Please visit
Studio Indiana
for more information.

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.
POSTMORTEM PROCEDURES
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  Link   adipocere
the Big Daddy of serious death-related sites. adipocere is the substance many of us who choose burial will turn into.
  Link   Forensic Art
The site covers the various facets of forensic art giving a brief description of each.
  Link   Embalming Videos And Funeral Education
A source for informational videos on the art of embalming and the funeral service profession. Great source for those wanting to get into the field of mortuary science.
  Link   Choose Death
Death Photos (not for the squeemish)
  Link   Beyond The Grave
Understanding human decomposition
  Link   Decomposition
DeathOnline presents what happens to the body after death
  Link   University of TN Forensic Anthropology Center
The Body Farms website
  Link   National Museum of Civil War Medicine
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is home to a new permanent exhibit entitled The Art of Embalming the Dead During the American Civil War.