DEATHCETERA: Weekly roundup of worldwide stories on death, dying, mourning and more

TOP STORIES

For some Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a National Day of Mourning – by Matt Juul at boston.com. More on this from Fred Hanson at the Plymouth Patriot Ledger, and Liberation.

Modern Loss, just completing its first year, has three Thanksgiving-related stories posted on its site

The holidays will kill you. – from Dan Diamond at Forbes

DEATH

Caleb Wilde of Confessions of a Funeral Director gives a TedX talk on “Embracing Death”

‘The Immortalists’ – a review of the new documentary, concerning two men fighting aging and death, by David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg – from Nicolas Rapold in the New York Times

Video report: Deceased psychiatric patients finally get memorials – from Kassie Bracken at the New York Times

Xavier Quijas Yxayotl presenting the Aztec death whistle – via BoskoVideo and YouTube

Tours of hell: five cultures look at postmortem damnation – via Rebecca Burgan at Atlas Obscura

Return of man assumed dead a “pleasant shock” for his family – via V Mayilvaganan at the Times of India

Hiker photographs bear that kills him – via Lauren Gambino in the Guardian

A nicely curated Pinterest board on death and dying

MOURNING

Mother feeds six families at Thanksgiving in honor of her late son – from Katherine Mozzone at KRQE

A funeral for a beloved homeless man – via Corey Kilgannon at the New York Times

Oyate community mourns its murdered members – via Elisa Sand at the Aberdeen, SD News

Churchill’s railway funeral carriage restored – from Britain’s National Railway Museum

FUNERALS

Going green when it comes to funerals – from Lucy Siegle at the Guardian

Author calls for removing the fun from funeral – via Terry Mattingly at the Gaston, NC Gazette

Illuminating details of how a pandemic changed the customs of death and dying in England – from Krystal D’Costa in the Scientific American

Funeral procession – sacrosanct or a nuisance? – from The Order of the Good Death

Reiterating the details of King Tut’s curse – from Jennifer Latson at TIME magazine

Worst funeral ever? Demented man steals hearse with coffin inside – via May Slater for Daily Mail Australia

END-OF-LIFE

Trouble at an assisted-living facility – from Vivian Vee at the New York Times

OBITS

Beautiful obit of journalist James Ragsdale by Ruben Rosario at the the St. Paul Pioneer Press

Loving obit reveals beloved husband was Spider-Man – via Daniel Politi at Slate

Mameve Medwed remembers her eccentric Aunt Felicia – in the Boston Globe