TOP STORIES
Photographer
makes series of before-and-after-death photos – reported by David Rosenberg
in Slate
Grief
shaming: judging others’ mourning by Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a
Funeral Director
Local
paper rejects man’s sarcastic self-penned obit – via Happy Place
DEATH
The
Death of Balzac, by Victor Hugo – from balzacbooks.wordpress.com
Is
death a path to political power? In Brazil, perhaps – via Dom Phillips in
the Washington Post
Dear
God, no: morgue worker admits having sex with corpses. A lot of corpses –
from Jerome Hudson of the Daily Surge
‘Before
I die’ bucket-list walls spreading – via Channel 3000
Death in the
digital age – an infographic from Robin Hyde-Chambers in SiteProNews
Arwa Salah Mahmoud talks about her
laissez-faire affair with death
MOURNING
From The Bowery Boys: Death
of Yiddish theater star triggered mass demonstration in 1914
In Medium’s Bereavement and Mourning category, talking
about the dead with Charles McCullagh
OBITS
Are
digital-age obits an improvement? – Mario Garcia of Garcia Media weighs in
Delightful
self-penned (if a bit lengthy) obit – from Ann Brenoff at the Huffington
Post
FUNERALS
Crowdfunding
funerals – by Jodi Helmer in Forbes
From Lynn Haney-Trowbridge in the Shoreline Times, how
to write a eulogy
A very
civil British funeral – from Judy Batalion in Modern Loss
‘Bad
dancing’ at funeral leads to fight, car crash, and attempted arson –
via Conor Byrne at NT News