DEATH
A
‘good death’ described – via John Paul at Beaver Countain
Hey, American
guys! This is how you will die – via Chloe Della Costa at Cheat Sheet
Natural
childbirth activist dies as she wished – via Celia and Jenny Kitzinger
Faces of Death
Row
– via Terri Langford in the Texas Tribune
‘The
Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead’ – via Alison Meier in
Hyperallergic
The
fight for retaining chosen gender identity after death – via April Dembosky
at KQED/NPR
Morbid Anatomy Museum,
Green-Wood Cemetery co-sponsors ‘Common Shade’ series on death – via
Green-Wood Cemetery
’21 Warning
Signs of Your Imminent Death’ – via Eric Bucholz in Cracked
How do
scientists determine an exact time of death? – via the New Zealand Herald
Depoliticizing
end-of-life planning
– via Bruce Jepsen at Forbes
Serving as
midwife and undertaker for 60 years – via Yu Hsueh-lan and Jake Chung in
the Taipei Times
Super-rich fund
immortality projects
– via Tara Clarke at Money Morning
Oscar-nominated
animated short “Coda” explores death – via Aquila Xiao Qi in Taxi
A guide to the
19th Century artists’ graves in New York City – via Alison
Meyer in Hyperallergic
New musical
features dying composer – via Ben Brantley in the New York Times
Doctor
walks the talk, donates her organs – via Madeline Smith The Globe and Mail
MOURNING
Mourning the
Charleston shootings—via
Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez, and Alana Wise at Reuters
‘The Condition
of Black Life Is One of Mourning’ – via Claudia Rankine in the New York
Times Mafaine
Mourning the
death of a child
– via Eric Meyer in Modern Loss
Incomplete
mourning
– via Sarah Baker at WBUR
Drag
queen honors loving grandmother – via Nigel Duara at the L.A. Times
Songs of grief – via Robert
Darden in the Huffington Post
Dancer and
choreographer creates mourning ritual at morning rush hour – via Siobhan
Burke in the New York Times
Japan mourns
stationmaster cat
– via Danielle Demetrieu at the Telegraph
The
cure for fear, grief, and death – via Dr. Harriet Lerner in Psychology
Today
FUNERALS
Cleveland
funeral home in trouble – via John Caniglia at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A tough story, but brilliantly reported and beautifully written. Best lede I’ve
read in quite some time.
Performance
artist plans own funeral service – via Nancy Groves in the Guardian
Are funerals
becoming wacky, happy occasions? – via Jon Kelly in the BBC News
Magazine
In Congo, comedy
trio gets gigs at funerals – via the BBC
Interview with
Nigerian funeral practitioner – via Deolu at Information Nigeria
Portrait
of a funeral singer – via Rob O’Flanagan at the Guelph Mercury
‘Funeral
Insurance: Do You Need It?’ – via Selena Maranjian at the Motley Fool
Funeral director
works without brick-and-mortar funeral home – via Lee Howard at The Day
New wrinkles at
memorial services
– via Krith Morelli at the Tampa Times
The
sad story of abandoned cremains – via Zack Lemon at the Columbus Dispatch
Dedicated
golfers want their ashes on the course – via John Paul Newport at the Wall
Street Journal
OBITS
A most concise
self-penned obituary
– via Hot Topics
Quite a stylish
obituary of Christopher Lee in The Economist. Unsigned and a bit unhinged.