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A CNN investigation reveals that the Phoenix Veterans Administration hospital changed or deleted death records
As Jennifer Schuessler reports in the New York Times, our friends at Morbid Anatomy just opened a museum in Brooklyn
Joy Neighbors just opened an interesting new blog, A Grave Interest, that details many other funeral and death-care museums
DEATH
Via Rabbi Elliott N. Dorff in the Jewish Journal, the importance of preparing advance end-of-death directives and living wills. (Why are many advance directives changed or ignored? " . . . because afrter the patient dies, the patient will not sue the doctor, but any one of the family members might.")
How about a prebituary? Terry Wright of the Hunterdon County Democrat says it might clue our friends and family in about the hidden corners of your life
MOURNING
How about a prebituary? Terry Wright of the Hunterdon County Democrat says it might clue our friends and family in about the hidden corners of your life
MOURNING
An interview with Kate Sweeney, author of the new book on the history of U.S. mourning, "American Afterlife," from Greta Johnsen of WCQS
Jeffrey Hatcher's new play, "Three Viewings," is set in a funeral home. The review from Carol Montana of the Middletown Times-Register
MISC
From KAWC, an interview with mortician Arick Dombrowski
In England, Quaker Social Action fights excessive funeral costs for the impoverished, per Nayler.
Kate Petersen in The Millions writes about her dad, who mails her a lot of newspaper clippings -- of obituaries
Undertaker stole charity donations to balance books, writes Stephanie Linning of the Daily Mail
Nelson Mandela's personal assistant outlines the farcical doings at his funeral -- per Aislinn Laing in the Telegraph