TOP STORIES
Google-backed life-extension company Calico partners with
pharmaceutical company AbbVie for $500
million project to “cure death” – from Ben Popper at The Verge
Funeral
home creates history show on death of Lincoln, including replica coffin –
via Eric Hrin of the Daily Review
On Politico, Oren Kessler remembers the
murdered journalist Steve Sotloff
DEATH
Network
helps parents of terminally ill children – by Gabrielle Birkner in Modern
Loss
Interview: Simon Worrall of National Geographic talks to
Judy Bacharach, journalist and author of “Glimpsing
Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life after Death” (CAVEAT: The book publisher
is National Geographic!)
Via Dodai Stwart at Jezebel – Caitlin Doughty at Ask a
Mortician answers: “What
Happens to Your Breast Implants When You Are Cremated?”
Amy
Wallen likes to investigate personalities of the past through cemeteries –
via the San Diego City Beat
Urban
Death Project has an idea: compost yourself – from Springwise
MOURNING
Emma G. Fitzsimmons and James Barron of the New York Times
report on Joan
Rivers’s funeral
Mementoes
as embodiments of mourning – from Susan Dunne at the Hartford Courant
Four
dozen tow trucks form procession for deceased young driver – via Marilyn
Miller at the Akron Beacon Journal
OBITS/TRIBUTES
Better
a feature story than a paid obit – from Katherine Crosier on Another Year
of insanity