DEATH
Is he dead or just
meditating? – via TIME magazine
The
hard part about hiring a mortician? Weeding out the necrophiliacs – from Lizette
Borelli at Medical Daily
Dying
– the checklist – from Thorin Klosowski at Lifehacker (from 2013)
‘Death
with Dignity’ bill debated, defeated in Colorado House – via Megan Verlee
at Colorado Public Radio
At
the end of life, people seek the company of those in their birth culture –
via Lulu Miller at NPR
Trying to reduce iatrogenic
(doctor-caused) deaths – via the BBC
Life
after death? The fable of the twin fetuses – via WND Fatih
MOURNING
Closure:
man kills crocodile that ate his wife – from Sean Levinson in Elite Daily
‘My
Dad the Pornographer’-- by Chris Offut in the New York Times
A
review of ‘Mourning Lincoln’ and ‘Lincoln’s Body’ – by Jill LePore at the
New York Times
Ways
to protect your digital info after death – Kimberly Palmer at U.S. News
& World Report
Your
last photo before death maybe a selfie – via Sophia Sleigh at the Daly
Mirror
FUNERALS
Interview
with alternative mortician Caitlin Doughty – from intheframe
Woman
shows up at funeral to honor modest man who saved her life – via Janet
Boyle at the Sunday Post
‘Inspection
Backlog, Complaints Trouble Funeral Homes’ – from AP via CBS Minnesota
Ohio
has problems with hydrolysis – via Alan Johnson at the Columbus Dispatch
Lincoln
funeral rail car recreated for 150th anniversary of his death –
via Frank Mathie at ABC News Chicago
Indicted
undertakers still working on the sly – via Mireya Villareal at CBS Dallas-Ft.
Worth
Bumps
in the road for those who opt for prepaid funeral plans – via Nancy Hicks
at the Lincoln Journal Star
OBITS
‘Obituary
surfing’ – hackers steal from the recently deceased – via Michelle Boudin
at WCNC
Woman
writes her own somewhat humorous obit – via Adam Rifkin at Elite Daily