TOP
STORIES
Wayne Coyne of
the Flaming Lips on living with the awareness of death – interview
with Jennifer van Evra, animated by Blank on Blank – via Boingboing
Ask a Mortician:
Can we compost the dead? – via Caitlin Doughty at the Order of the Good
Death
“Don’t Lose the
Body: 8 Tips to Plot a Funeral” from Elaine Ambrose in the Huffington
Post
DEATH
Another
excellent feature story on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Death Becomes Her”
exhibit
by Allison Meier at Hyperallergic
10 Things Bodies
Can Do After Death
– from Confessions of a Funeral Director
FUNERALS
Ebola
concerns reshape funeral practices in U.S. – via Andrew Meacham, Tampa Bay
Times
Ice Age funeral
site discovered by archaeologists – via Laura Geggel at Fox News
Another
“drive-thru” funeral home – from Lauren Fluker at WHLT
OBITUARIES
Finding
the right words for an obituary for a beloved aunt – from John
Walsh in the Providence Journal
Hey, are you
dead? Best celebrity responses to death hoaxes – via Luchina
Fisher at ABC
Redskins fan
makes final request in his self-penned obit – via Micah Peters at USA Today