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Interview with
Patty Rosen, chief spokesperson for Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act campaign of
1994
– via Samantha O’Connor from KTVZ-TV
Kate
Schweitzer at Popsugar discusses the Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s new exhibit on mourning dress;
as
does Art in America, Glam, National News
Wire,
Complex, Newsweek, TIME, and artcritical. Hillary Kelly’s
meditation
in the New Republic is particularly well-thought.
Oh, dear – Dr.
Tanzler really loved Maria Hoyos; so much that he lived with her decaying
corpse for a decade – until the trial. From Jessica Guerra in Atlas Obscura.
3D printing
company offers designer cremation urns (as used by Bob Casale of Devo!) – from Rodrigo
Cokting of The Weather Network?
DEATH
Death and
popular culture – a survey by Ruth LaFerla in the New York Times
What does a
death investigator do? – from Katy Moeller at the Idaho Statesman
Unique
cemeteries
– from Emma Morton in Slate
Determining
death: a collision of legal, medical, scientific, and religious qualifications – by Daniel
Schwartz of the CBC
Art project
leads to 50 “Boxes of Death” – from Nastia Voynovskaya at Hi
Fructose
Can you be
scared to death? Yes – stress cardiomyopathy explained by MSN’s Trace
and Wilson
A very sad story
about a couple with a child doomed to live only four hours – by Chelsea
Lacey-Mabe at NBC Philadelphia.
In
the Guardian, Imogen Russell Williams discusses books
that help young children understand death
Explaining death
to children: a humanist perspective – by Joan Reisman-Brill in The Humanist
Dying man wrote,
left cache of letters for wife, infant daughter – by Alyssa
Newcomb on Good Morning America
MOURNING
Chuck Klosterman
on whether we should have told Koko the gorilla that Robin Williams died – from the
pages of the New York Times
A soldier’s room
is preserved as he left it – since his death in World War I – via Anne
Penketh at the Guardian
Older mourning
customs explored
– by Irene Bowers at the Virginia Beach Beacon
Bereavement
photography comforts parents of dead infants – via Sarah Le Trent of CNN
Victorian
mourning biscuits
– from “Rebeccac” at Daily Two Cents
“ReTweet if
You’re Grieving”
from Anna Altman at the New York Times
Doors are focus
of grieving families’ art projects – via the Chicago Tribune
Muslim imambara
are houses of mourning – from M H Heider at The Daily Star
END-OF-LIFE
ISSUES
Right-to-die
campaigner starves herself to death to evade UK laws on assisted suicide – via Natasha
Culzac
On donating your
body to science
– from Gabrielle Monaghan from the Irish Independent
FUNERALS
Funerary
historian and curator Kathy Volkmann gives presentation – from Bob Dohr
at the Wausau Daily Herald
An interview
with Courtney Harris, who has dubbed herself “the blonde Morticia” – from Lee
DeVito at the Metro Times
South L.A.
funeral home offers colorful “home-going” ceremony – covered by
CBS Los Angeles
Growing up in a
funeral home: an interview with Kate Mayfield regarding her new book, “The
Undertaker’s Daughter” – from the Guardian.