Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Jane Baker
TV writer -- via Digital Spy. Best known for writing with husband Pip Baker for "Doctor Who" and "Space: 1999"; also Robery Ryan's last film, "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City."
Rafael 'El Pato' Carret
Comedian, composer, conductor, and actor -- via the Buenos Aires Herald. He was the last of "Los Cinco Grandes del Buen Humor."
Austin William "Goose" Gonsoulin
Football player; an original Denver Bronco and member of the Ring of Fame -- via the New York Times.
http://www.denverbroncos.com/multimedia/videos/Remembering-Austin-Goose-Gonsoulin/7580d118-50c9-47c5-a7e5-27ef5efbdd4e
http://www.denverbroncos.com/multimedia/videos/Remembering-Austin-Goose-Gonsoulin/7580d118-50c9-47c5-a7e5-27ef5efbdd4e
Magda Olivero
Soprano -- via the New York Times. The last of the verismas -- female singers versed in the late-19th century tradition of hyper-realistic, melodramatic "verismo" operas,
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Gerald Wilson
Trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator -- via the L.A. Times. He worked with everyone; his first big gig was replacing Sy Oliver in the Jimmie Lunceford band in 1939!
Monday, September 8, 2014
WEEKLY READER for Sept. 8, 2014 -- Stories on death, dying, mourning and more
TOP STORIES
Google-backed life-extension company Calico partners with
pharmaceutical company AbbVie for $500
million project to “cure death” – from Ben Popper at The Verge
Funeral
home creates history show on death of Lincoln, including replica coffin –
via Eric Hrin of the Daily Review
On Politico, Oren Kessler remembers the
murdered journalist Steve Sotloff
DEATH
Network
helps parents of terminally ill children – by Gabrielle Birkner in Modern
Loss
Interview: Simon Worrall of National Geographic talks to
Judy Bacharach, journalist and author of “Glimpsing
Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life after Death” (CAVEAT: The book publisher
is National Geographic!)
Via Dodai Stwart at Jezebel – Caitlin Doughty at Ask a
Mortician answers: “What
Happens to Your Breast Implants When You Are Cremated?”
Amy
Wallen likes to investigate personalities of the past through cemeteries –
via the San Diego City Beat
Urban
Death Project has an idea: compost yourself – from Springwise
MOURNING
Emma G. Fitzsimmons and James Barron of the New York Times
report on Joan
Rivers’s funeral
Mementoes
as embodiments of mourning – from Susan Dunne at the Hartford Courant
Four
dozen tow trucks form procession for deceased young driver – via Marilyn
Miller at the Akron Beacon Journal
OBITS/TRIBUTES
Better
a feature story than a paid obit – from Katherine Crosier on Another Year
of insanity
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Donatas Banionis
Iconic actor -- via rferl.org. Best remembered in the West for his leading role as Kris in Tarkovsky's original "Solaris"
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