TOP
STORIES
For some Native
Americans, Thanksgiving is a National Day of Mourning – by Matt Juul
at boston.com. More on this from Fred
Hanson at the Plymouth Patriot Ledger, and Liberation.
Modern
Loss, just completing its first year, has three
Thanksgiving-related stories posted on its site
The holidays
will kill you.
– from Dan Diamond at Forbes
DEATH
‘The
Immortalists’ – a review of the new documentary, concerning two
men fighting aging and death, by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg – from
Nicolas Rapold in the New York Times
Video report:
Deceased psychiatric patients finally get memorials – from Kassie
Bracken at the New York Times
Xavier Quijas Yxayotl presenting the Aztec
death whistle – via BoskoVideo and YouTube
Tours of hell:
five cultures look at postmortem damnation – via Rebecca Burgan at Atlas
Obscura
Return of man
assumed dead a “pleasant shock” for his family – via V
Mayilvaganan at the Times of India
Hiker
photographs bear that kills him – via Lauren Gambino in the Guardian
MOURNING
Mother feeds six
families at Thanksgiving in honor of her late son – from
Katherine Mozzone at KRQE
A funeral for a
beloved homeless man
– via Corey Kilgannon at the New York Times
Oyate community
mourns its murdered members – via Elisa Sand at the Aberdeen, SD News
Churchill’s
railway funeral carriage restored – from Britain’s National Railway
Museum
FUNERALS
Going green when
it comes to funerals
– from Lucy Siegle at the Guardian
Author calls for
removing the fun from funeral – via Terry Mattingly at the Gaston, NC
Gazette
Illuminating
details of how a pandemic changed the customs of death and dying in England – from Krystal
D’Costa in the Scientific American
Funeral
procession – sacrosanct or a nuisance? – from The Order of the Good Death
Reiterating the
details of King Tut’s curse – from Jennifer Latson at TIME magazine
Worst funeral
ever? Demented man steals hearse with coffin inside – via May
Slater for Daily Mail Australia
END-OF-LIFE
Trouble at an
assisted-living facility – from Vivian Vee at the New York Times
OBITS
Beautiful obit
of journalist James Ragsdale by Ruben Rosario at the the St. Paul
Pioneer Press
Loving obit
reveals beloved husband was Spider-Man – via Daniel Politi at Slate
Mameve
Medwed remembers her eccentric Aunt Felicia – in the Boston Globe