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| Bosnian war dead -- photo by Paolo Pellegrini/Magnum, for the New York Times |
Rabbi Micah Peltz in Haaretz asks: is the Jewish calendar obsessed with mourning?
In the Toronto Star, Nancy J. White profiles a funeral director
Via NPR, a funeral for a home in Philadelphia
From the Toronto Star, Stephanie MacLellan discusses virtual mourning
From Scott Anderson in the New York Times magazine, the ongoing mission of finding and burying the Bosnian war dead
In the drug-war landscape, a business in repatriating corpses of the slain -- from Karla Cornejo Villavicenio in The New Inquiry
Agnes Chew in Live Learn Evolve equates mortality and motivation
Yikes! A Massachusetts funeral home has its license suspended for letting its clients waste away -- via the Miami Herald
And Jason Kotowski of the Bakersfield Examiner reports many irregularities in area funeral homes, including inaccurate death certificates, overcharges, fraud, and negligence
Kentaro Koyama reports in the Asahu Shimbun that Chinese officials are suppressing the public mourning at a tragic death site
And at Tiananmen Square, another crackdown on mourners at the 25th anniversary of the infamous massacre
Conflict over funerary rules in Australia, per AP
According to Allison Quinn in the Moscow Times, in Russia funeral services have a gangsterish tinge
On YouTube, a unique Ghanian funeral dance