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Date Item Title
October 12, 2007 Undertaking thanatology studies
March 19, 2007 Calendar shows off funeral directors' bodies
January 19, 2007 In Death as in Life, a Personalized Space
January 01, 2007 The 2007 Men of Mortuaries Calendar is Now Available
September 27, 2006 Cremation Urns Come to Life in Philadelphia
September 19, 2006 10 jobs dealing with death
August 13, 2006 Cool Coffin Carriages
July 20, 2006 Princess Grace's hearse among killer exhibits at Houston museum
June 15, 2006 Cell photos of death a macabre new twist
June 08, 2006 Firm makes killer calendar for serialphiles
April 23, 2006 Body Exhibits Attract Suits on Contracts, Copyrights
March 16, 2006 Mummy exhibit opens six-month run in Mobile
March 13, 2006 British university offers death course
February 22, 2006 Larvae, Lincolns Bullet and Tiny Corpses: Exhibition
February 20, 2006 A Grave Matter
November 29, 2005 Cadaver Exhibition Raises Questions Beyond Taste
September 21, 2005 Centre to study death is opened
June 23, 2005 Murder memorabilia on auction in New York
April 18, 2005 Woman finds history in funerals, cemeteries
April 17, 2005 Replica of Lincolns coffin on display in Wausau, WI
April 11, 2005 Museum honors late director with more space for odd exhibits
February 09, 2005 DNA match sought for Jamestown settler
February 09, 2005 Coffin signs dont make careful drivers: study
February 09, 2005 Victorian Festival to portray town pioneers -- right from the grave
January 24, 2005 Curious Line Up in the Middle of the Night to Look at Bodies
December 26, 2004 Thousands seek solstice sun in Stone Age tomb
November 09, 2004 Playing Dead Is an Art on CSI
October 25, 2004 Digging Into Their Past
October 22, 2004 Beheading videos fascinate public
September 23, 2004 Haunted History Tour set Saturday
September 22, 2004 Who Ya Gonna Call? The ARC
September 07, 2004 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross bet on sure thing: Death
September 03, 2004 The way of all flesh -- then what?
August 25, 2004 Mordauntes Coffin Shaped Gems and Jewelry - Divine Morbidity with Good Taste
August 23, 2004 Murderer is cremated after 200 years
June 30, 2004 Excavation affirms traditions of past
June 28, 2004 Pondering death in the Big Easy
June 24, 2004 Kathmandu: Hindu shrine in Nepal is haven for dying
June 20, 2004 Veteran hangman passes mantle to heir
June 11, 2004 Making corpses for Six Feet Under is stiff work
June 08, 2004 Slow learner designs a hearse
May 26, 2004 Replica of Roman murder victim
May 25, 2004 Learning from the Dead in Brazil
May 25, 2004 Huntsville man uses hearse as personal car
April 18, 2004 A `Saint Death of last resort
April 17, 2004 HUNLEY: Women in black illustrate mourning ritual
April 08, 2004 Passing Fancies
February 22, 2004 Comedian Thinks Roadside Memorials Are Funny
October 22, 2003 Gravestone rubbers tales from beyond
October 14, 2003 The curiosities of death
 
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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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