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DEATH
UNICEF campaign enlists singing Grim Reaper – via John Young at Design Taxi
Man makes
mission of fighting fear of death – via Jonathan Fisher at Business
Insider
Tax Day (and
Election Day and Super Bowl Sunday) can kill you – via Karen
Kaplan at the L.A. Times
Lincoln’s tomb
is in terrible shape
– via Kerry Lester at AP
The causes of
musicians’ deaths, by genre – via Ana Swanson at the Washington Post
Learning how to
talk to one’s children about death – from Zsophia McMullin
Parent brought
to mourning hall, despite being not quite dead – via Focus
Taiwan
MOURNING
Social media
helps gather minyans for the Jewish dead – via Jodi Rudoren at the New York
Times
Visiting a house
of mourning
– via Elana Mizrahi at The Jewish Woman
FUNERALS
‘Pre-mortem’
funeral for mother with Alzheimer’s – via Johnny Dodd in People
Baby Boom set to
hit funeral industry
– via Steve Doughty in the Daily Mail
Oh, dear – bad
Yelp reviews of funeral homes – via Anna Merlan at Jezebel
Widow hires
strippers for husband’s funeral – via Kara O’Neill at The Mirror
Funeral home
branches out into venue for concerts, bingo – via Linda Murphy in the Herald
News
3 ways to plan
for your funeral expenses – via Maryalene LaPonsie in the U.S. News &
World Report