TOP STORIES
From Agence France-Presse: Who
counts the dead in Gaza?
On the Wellness Web, clinical psychologist Rosemary Stauber
talks about her own grief
and mourning
Stephen Cave in Aeon Magazine talks about the
momentousness – and insignificance – of death
DEATH
From Chez Oswell, Death
101: A Checklist
‘Death
and denial in the hot zone’: Attempts to fight Ebola lead to demonization of
and attacks on health workers – via Foreign Policy magazine
Anger
over an adventurous death from Darlene Ensor of the Mail Tribune
The
death of adventurer Harry Devert by Louise Stewart in Newsweek
In Scope, Jacqueline Genovese reports on physicians
discussing death and their patients
Ciara Kelly of the Irish Independent on opening
the dialogue about death
Kerrie Noonan of Mama Mia on talking
to kids about death
Harvesting
organs from the dead: Danielle McCrea reports for the Las Vegas Sun
Oldest
medical report of near-death experience found, from Bahar Gholipour in
Signs of the Times
From National Geographic, a new book about “the
stories and science of life after death”
MOURNING
Startup
intends to connect family, friends, and funeral services, according to
Chris Rauber of the San Francisco Business Times
Jewish
group recites the mourning prayer for all the victims in the Gaza conflict,
per Antonia Blumberg of the Huffington Post
An
exhibit of memorial art reported on by Elissa Barnard of the Halifax Herald
Gordon Boyd of Wave3 News reports on “Death
101: Courses in Coping”
A contestant in isolation on a reality TV show mourns
his grandfather on camera – from Hollywood Life
New
funeral museum opens in Virginia, per Susan Worley in the Chatham
Star-Tribune
In The Toast, Lindsey Palka writes about “Victorian
Hair Art and Mourning Traditions”
OBITS
From jimromanesko.com – How truthful should
any obituary be?
FUNERALS
From Alltop, a link to a Telegraph article about a new
service that will launch your remains into space
Funeral
home loses license again, six months after ‘leaky bodies’ complaints – via
Jesse McLean and Joel Eastwood in the Caledon Enterprise.
MISC
From Modest Money, “Planning
Ahead with Burial and Funeral Insurance”