TOP STORIES
From Confessions of a Funeral Director, "The Ultimate List of Mortician Themed License Plates" -- http://www.calebwilde.com/2014/07/the-ultimate-list-of-mortitian-themed-license-plates/
Via Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times, death on a island sheds light on a changing funeral industry http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/us/even-on-nantucket-a-funeral-home-is-a-luxury.html
R.I.P. T-shirts? Memorial casual wear is the thing in Baton Rouge; the story by Donna Britt of WAFB http://www.wafb.com/story/25991707/rip-shirts-have-changed-how-people-mourn-in-south-louisiana
DEATH
Mike Pleming on Modest Money talks about preparing for death, enotionally and financially http://www.modestmoney.com/prepare-financially-emotionally-death/
Is he dead? Wait just a minute, per ghanaweb.com http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=316513
A dying skill: film program cancelled due to projectionist's demise -- from Meredith Moss of the Dayton Daily News http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/projectionists-death-results-in-cancellation-of-fi/ngZ8D/
There's a story here. Urn abandoned. Why? Via the Arizona Daily Independent http://www.arizonadailyindependent.com/2014/07/10/funeral-urn-ditched-at-phoenix-business/
'Mourning in the age of Skype': Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig in The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/figuring-out-how-to-mourn-in-the-age-of-skype/374044/
Finding meaning in loss, by Emily Lauren Townsend in Whole magazine http://www.wholemagazine.org/2014/07/death-as-way-to-life-finding-meaning-in.html
Lodro Rinzler in Elephant Journal reports on meditation and mourning http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/07/meditation-and-mourning-3-obstacles-to-successful-grieving/
Threading through Time's Lady Constance discusses Victorian mourning http://threadingthroughtime.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/the-victorian-in-mourning-who-wore-what-and-for-how-long/
OBITS
Um. Tom Hawthorne of the Vancouver Times Colonist reports on a unique anti-obit: http://www.legacy.com/news/stories-to-share/lovable-con-man-says-goodbye/2477/ and