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TOP STORIES
New “death
simulator” is a new escape-room game due to open in September, per Maggie
Hiufu Wong on CNN
In the pages of Cracked, Himanshu Sharma outlines “The
5 Creepiest Death Rituals from Around the World (Part 2)”
Corpse stolen from
mortuary after four months reveals family feud: via Nkem Ikeke of naji.com.
DEATH
In Time magazine, John Sanburn reveals Emily
Kinni’s remarkable photo essay on former places of execution
From Confessions of a Funeral Director, “5
Fantastic TED Talks on Death”
Richard Harris of the Wall Street Journal reports on the
growing momentum of the aid-in-dying movement
Brittany Goodin writes about death and Beat
literature in the Artifice
Daniel McConnell of Ireland’s Herald on the
Irish government’s implementation of a “short-form” death certificate that
omits the cause of death
Death
in Gaza, from AP via Fox
Peter Dominiczak and Dan Hyde in the Telegraph meld the two
inevitables – death
and taxes
In The Nation, Nicholas Tufnell describes digital
methods of dealing with death
Michel Koh on Thought Catalog, on the
death of friends
‘Lethal neglect’? A
nursing home nightmare
Mary Awad in The Artifice analyzes anime and childhood death
In the Ernest Becker Foundation, H. Talat Halman reviews “Beyond
Death Anxiety”
Oh dear.
Taxidermy as a “creative hobby,” from Laura Secorun Palet on NPR.
MOURNING
Memory
and loss: mourning the dead of World War I, from Ian Bell of the Herald.
In the Guardian, Laura Barnett writes about Hannah
Moss, who performs a silent play about her father’s death
Elon Gilad of Haaretz discusses Tisha
B’Av, a Jewish day of mourning
Fear
of death and the silence of life, from Daniel Coffeen in Thought Catalog
OBITS
Marty Kaplan in HuffPo gives
Warren Bennis a different kind of obituary
Esteban Parra, in the News Journal, on more
kooky obituaries
FUNERALS
Church
cancels funeral ceremony for gay man – from Shannon Behnken of WFLA
Rude Pundit recalls a
loving funeral for a gay man in 1989
Crowdfunding
funerals, from Kayleigh Kulp of Fox Business
Want
to spend summer vacation interning as a mortician? – from Lin Hui-chin and
Jake Chung of the Taipei Times.
The Sun Herald relates the death of funeral director Jesse
Richmond, Jr., a
pioneer of the drive-through funeral home
Wrong
body. Via EURWeb.
Better late than never: remains
of nine Jonestown victims found in abandoned funeral home after 35 years:
Randall Chase, AP, via ABC
From the Better Business Bureau via the Topeka
Capital-Journal, “planning
funerals saves stress”
Tampa
funeral home robs clients, per Elizabeth Behrman of the Tampa
Tribune
MISC
The
mystery of the misplaced, duplicate tombstone found 35 miles north of the grave
– from Saundra Sorenson of the Portland Tribune