Not many stories about death this week -- which, ironically, is just fine by me. Sometimes grief and thoughts of mortality must ebb.
DEATH
Do you mind if
we broadcast your husband’s death? Really? Too bad – from Charles
Ornstein via ProPublica and the New York Times
Oh
dear. The misadventures of famous people’s bodies after death – from Jef
Rouner at Cracked
Man
seeks to reunite cremains with dead man’s survivors – via Rachel Southmayd
at heraldonline.com.
MOURNING
Second
slain NYPD officer buried; some police protests continue – via Ashley
Fantz, Ben Brumfield, and Holly Yan at CNN
FUNERALS
Rising funeral
costs are crippling
– from Lucy Berry at al.com
OBITS
Interview with
Margalit Fox, long-time obit writer for the New York Times – via Lourdes
Garcia-Navarro at NPR