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Date Item Title
March 03, 2008 Cemetery firm points finger at ex-owners
January 04, 2008 Indiana investigating funeral home owner
July 19, 2007 Unearthing the past
April 27, 2007 Arctic coroners comb files for flawed autopsies
March 08, 2007 Anna Nicole funeral director fired
January 10, 2007 Part-time cop on trial for stealing from funeral home
January 09, 2007 Coroner thinks missing woman was murdered
September 13, 2006 Prosecutor Investigates How Money Was Stolen From Corpse
August 17, 2006 Police: Waco-area mortuary worker stole pills off bodies
August 07, 2006 Licensing issue stalls cremation of body
June 16, 2006 Criminal Investigation Opens Into Clearing Of Historical Graveyard
June 09, 2006 County Supervisors Hear About Morgue Overcrowding
May 21, 2006 Gaps in system let ghoulish tale unfold
March 16, 2006 Up to $30 million in consumers funeral money is missing
March 13, 2006 Ghanaian university, family tussle over `donated` corpse
February 11, 2006 Stolen funeral home check charges dropped
January 06, 2006 Secret grave discovered on cult grounds
December 26, 2005 Graveyard Wrestling
August 30, 2005 Fetuses Found at Home of McKeesport Funeral Director
August 09, 2005 Two city employees blamed for cemetery fiasco
July 24, 2005 Funeral director charged with theft, corpse abuse
July 07, 2005 St. Agnes Plot Owners Protest Cemetery
June 30, 2005 $11,000 Missing From Another Corpse
June 29, 2005 Project Halted After Grave Is Unearthed
May 09, 2005 Man accused of stealing credit card from corpse
May 07, 2005 Mistakes Plague Tenn. Medical Examiner
April 27, 2005 Funeral Director Accused Of Improperly Touching Corpses
April 23, 2005 Embalming Fluid Stolen From Funeral Home
April 08, 2005 Iowans Costly Funeral Ushers in Controversy
March 30, 2005 Death Charged in Theft From Cemetery
March 19, 2005 Another probe of crematory
March 08, 2005 Questions Still Surround Van Corpses
March 07, 2005 Crematorium case puts spotlight on medical examiners
March 05, 2005 Police make drug, prostitution arrests in raid on funeral home
February 27, 2005 Officials investigating burial of body parts
February 23, 2005 Ex-medical examiner indicted
January 16, 2005 Funeral home torched in Wichita; three bodies inside
January 14, 2005 Coroner accused of stealing drugs
November 21, 2004 Charles City funeral director charged with theft
November 16, 2004 Womans corpse mutilated at morgue
November 14, 2004 Ex-medical examiner faces added charges
October 15, 2004 Grave mystery: Unknown body in cemetery
October 07, 2004 Autopsy-fee scam alleged
September 15, 2004 S.B. County Morgue Thrown on Defensive With Complaints
September 05, 2004 Funeral home where decomposing bodies were found burns in suspicious fire
August 26, 2004 Ex-owner of cemetery faces four new charges
August 25, 2004 Burial Money for Toddler Stolen
August 12, 2004 Man admits false entries on burials register
August 05, 2004 Dynamite stolen from Moon cemetery
July 31, 2004 Cemetery operator accused of digging up body over financial dispute
 
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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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