TOP STORIES
Let’s put the fun back in funeral? From Jaleed Kaleem in
the Huffington Post:
Denver trumpeter writes his own threnody – an account
by David Hill on Colorado Public Radio https://www.cpr.org/news/story/trumpeter-joshua-trinidad-writes-music-his-own-funeral
Valentina Zanoni
announces on Swide that the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s fall
exhibition concerns the history of mourning attire http://www.swide.com/art-culture/met-museum-fall-2014-exhibition-mourning-dress/2014/07/03
DEATH
Death on Pike’s Peak: a firsthand account http://www.motorsport.com/hillclimb/news/witnessing-death-at-pikes-peak-a-first-person-account-of-bobby-goodin-s-final-moments/
Jenny Che of the Wall Street Journal reports on a Copper Age funerary ware exhibit http://online.wsj.com/articles/masters-of-fire-spotlights-the-copper-age-1404421180?mod=rss_Books
MOURNING
A heartrending photo essay from NBC shows us those mourning a teen who died en route to America http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/family-mourns-guatemalan-boy-who-died-border-n146636
From Funeral News: Maintaining a relationship with the dead: an African
perspective http://funeralnews.co.za/top-scholar-explains-african-way-of-mourning/
Patti Woods of NPR reports -- Mourning under cover: when a lover had to pretend to be just
a friend http://www.npr.org/2014/07/02/327404618/mourning-in-the-closet-she-was-more-than-my-best-friend
From TaketheGate blog: Mourning father tasered in hospital http://takethegate.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/mourning-pittsburgh-father-tazed-and-arrested-at-hospital-132/
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation tell us that Ebola victim families are warned to avoid traditional mourning
practices to prevent spread the epidemic http://www.gbcghana.com/1.1773089
OBITS
How does it feel to read your own obituary? Roz Warren tells us in the digital pages of Viva Fifty! http://www.vivafifty.com/reading-my-obituary-online-1265/
Slavik Boyechko & Travis Gilmour of Alaska Public Media meet the town obituarist http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/06/29/i-am-the-town-obituary-writer/
Slavik Boyechko & Travis Gilmour of Alaska Public Media meet the town obituarist http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/06/29/i-am-the-town-obituary-writer/
FUNERAL HOMES
Why can’t she get her husband’s death certificate fixed? Jon Yates of the Chicago Tribune wants to know http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/problemsolver/ct-death-certificate-error-problem-0701-biz-20140701,0,5645740.column
Funeral business drawing new recruits, says Jim Ryan of the Columbus Dispatch http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/07/01/a-renewed-undertaking.html
Robin L. Flanigan of the Rochester, NY Democrat & Chronicle interviews an undertaker http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/06/30/funeral-director-love-embalming/11259461/
In the People's Post, Henry Booysen reports on a horrible funeral in South Africa http://www.peoplespost.co.za/articles/articledetails.aspx?mode=news&id=161947