DEATH
Fighting off
bodysnatchers: grave cages – from Annetta Black at Atlas Obscura
Different
doctors’ voices heard on end-of-life issues – by Jason Breslow at PBS’s
Frontline
How can you
implement an end-of-life plan for someone with dementia? – from Robin
Marantz Henig at NPR
Yikes! Death in
Victorian times was really gross – by Mike Cahill at Viralnova
‘The Orpheus
Variations’ a theatrical meditation on death, mourning – from Emily
Snyder at The Jewish Week
Facebook
establishes ‘legacy contact’ designation to manage decedent’s account – by Jack
Linshi at TIME magazine
And, what is it
like to have a ‘digital mortician’? – via Jim Herrera at the Washington
Post
Egyptian
government restricts news of activist’s death – via David D.
Kirkpatrick at the New York Times
Death
professionals and dating – by Rebecca Solomon at Fox 43
MOURNING
‘My Dead
Husband, the Serial Adulterer’ – from Robyn Woodman at Modern Loss
‘Living Memory
Project’ seeks to further the altruistic goals of the deceased – by Randall P.
Lieberman at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
‘Why we must
grieve’ – an interview with a mourning-custom expert – via Kyle
Norris at Michigan Radio
A concise
history of mourning jewelry – via the Derby Telegraph
FUNERALS
In defiance,
women carry coffin of murdered Turkish woman – via al Arabiya News.
DNA banking
could be new sideline for funeral homes – via Tim Grant at the Green Bay Press
Gazette
Funeral home
launches mobile showroom – by Meredith Shamburger at the Dallas Morning News
Preparing the
body of someone you knew – from Nora Menkin at the Order of the Good Death
10 Worst Things
to Eat at a Funeral
– via Straight White Males at the Huffington Post
Coffin pops open
as lowered into too-small grave – via Josh Saul at the New York Post
‘Star Wars’ fan
gets Stormtrooper send-off – via Kevin Melrose at Comic Book Resources
Funeral director
overcoming racial divide in business – via Doug Moore at the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
OBITS
Dana Lods:
portrait of a troubled man – via Bianca Montes at the Vancouver Advocate
Why didn’t the
BAFTAs honor the late Bob Hoskins? – by Nick Romano at Cinemablend
An entry in ‘The
Art of the Obituary’
– from Bob Collins at MPR