TOP
STORIES
‘Death
is always the best career move’ – the Telegraph on celebrity’s digital
afterlife
Livestreaming
funerals: innovation or abomination? – from Lex Berko via the Atlantic
‘Second-Hand Grief’ – Laura
Leigh Abby on how mourning affects life for a partner, at Modern Loss
DEATH
More on the cult
of Santa Muerte
– from Oriana Gonzalez and Alasdair Baverstock at the Daily Mail
Stephen
Colbert’s last guest will be Death – via Patrick Kevin Day at the L.A.
Times
Magical website
tells you when you’re going to die – from fastcodesign.com
MOURNING
Digital mourning – by Adam
Wernick at PRI
‘How to Survive
the Mourning After’
by Monique Minahan in Elephant Journal
FUNERALS
A mass funeral
for the unclaimed dead in Los Angeles – from John Schleuss, Taylor
Goldenstein, and Maloy Moore at the L.A. Times
This
is definitely not the funeral director for you – via Barry Smythe at the
Mirror
We
discover the National Museum of Funeral History in a story concerning ‘weird
museums’ – via Donna Gordon Blankinship and AP
OBITS
Newspapers want
to regain financial benefits of publishing obituaries – from Diana
Marszalek at Net News Check.