Note to the patient reader: A needed break resulted in a backup of new posts to share. This week's edition catches us up, and is quite extensive.
DEATH
B.B. King’s
death helped his Spotify numbers immensely – via Hugh McIntyre at Forbes
Valuable
end-of-life lessons learned while caring for the dying – via Paula Span at the New York Times
Researchers
reconstruct the life of a girl who died 3,400 years ago – via Eryn
Brown at the L.A. Times
Why are they so
unpopular? Well, study show thoughts of atheists lead to thoughts of death – via Stephanie
Pappas at Live Science
‘A brave new
world of death’
– via D.J. Pangburn in Hopes & Fears
An intense
feature on Sandy Bern, who decided to end her life when faced with Alzheimer’s – via Robin
Marantz Hening in the New York Times
Hard truths
about death and dying in America – via Lauren Alix Brown in Slate
Only about 30
percent of British ready for death – via Peter Walker at the Guardian
How will you
die? A state-by-state breakdown – via Rachel Rettner at Live Science
AND A
MAGNIFICENT ANALYSIS OF SAME – via Baxter B. Allen and Alexander
Kent in Wall St 24/7
An abrupt death
fosters thoughts on risk – via Jeffrey Wasserman at the Chicago Tribune
‘Grave Matters:
A History of Death and Mourning’ – via Mihail Halatchev at WLRN
A weak handshake
could indicate early mortality – via Noah Rayman in TIME
On not
perceiving death as a failure – via Deborah Lutz in the New York
Times
After husband’s
death, Sandberg’s “Lean In” philosophy reexamined – via Wendy Lee
in SFGate
Chemicals used
in embalming turning cemeteries in to toxic waste sites – via ‘Reynard
Loki’ at AlterNet
10 classic
cemeteries
– via the L.A. Times
Meet the
prosecutors who love the death penalty – via Robert Smith in Slate
At Cannes, new
film ‘Chronic’ features Tim Roth as homecare nurse for the dying – via Jill
Lawless at AP
Train announcer
censured for referring to train-delaying suicide on tracks in a ‘vulgar’ manner – via Euan
McClelland at the Daily Mail
MOURNING
Memorial Day’s
Civil War origins
– via John Marks in the Finger Lakes Times
Book helps
civilians communicate with veterans – via Jeff Karoub at APa
The first 30
days of sheloshim, Jewish mourning – via Mayim
Bialik in Kveller
Mother accepts
diploma for son killed before graduation – via the Today Show
Exhibition
demonstrates turn-of-last-century mourning rituals – via Alyssa
Skiba at the Peninsula Pulse
Mourning
Palmyra: ancient city captured by destructive fanatics – via Heather
Saul at the Independent
Some Sudanese
widows says year of mourning too long – via Radio Tamazuj
Separating
yourself from others’ mourning process – via Steve Almond at WBUR
The sculpture of
mourning
– via Wallace Ryce at the Monterey County Weekly
Where to find
celebrity graves in L.A. – via the L.A. Times
Mourning leads
to marriage
– via Robert Strauss at the New York Times
FUNERALS
Dead taxi driver
propped up for viewing at wheel of his cab – via Alyssa Newcomb at ABC News
Thousands attend
mass funeral for bombing victims – via Ian Timberlake at Yahoo News
Funeral home
uses billboard ads for public-service information – via Dana
Molina at KRDO
The
crazy kooky life of a funeral director – via Gabrielle Russon in the
Orlando Sentinel
When you have a
veteran’s body in your hearse, you really really should not stop at a Dunkin’
Donuts
– via Alysssa Pone at ABC News
A very dark look
at funeral expenses
– via Mark Mason at the Spectator
FTC
investigation reveals funeral home problems – via David Lazarus in the L.A.
Times
Funeral singer
becomes Paiute (Utah) chairwoman – via Erin Alberty at the Salt Lake
Tribune
Ceremony honors
Lusitania dead 100 years later – via Barry Roche in the Irish Times
When funeral
homes had the only ambulances – via Rhonda Simmons at the Star
Exponent
Women’s numbers
increasing in funeral industry – via Sandra Guy in the Chicago
Sun-Times
Cop pulls over
funeral procession
– via KRNV
OBITS
Jim Crumbley not
only wrote his own obit, he went down and dropped it off at the local paper – via Joanne
Kimberlin at AP
Obituarist
Maureen O’Donnell honored for her work – via Robert Feder
Obituarist
writes mother’s obit
-- via Rick Hamon in USA Today
‘Obituary for a
broken man’
– via Emma Mulqueeny at Medium