DEATH
The Black Death
– the upside!
– by Larry Jimenez at Listverse
10 faces of
death from world mythology – via Jonathan H. Kantor at Listverse
Visualizing statistics
on 10 unusual causes of death – from David Taylor at proofreader.com
The rise of the
death café
– from Sophie Elmhirst at Prospect magazine
Adventures of
the psychopomp
– via Barbara Cashman in Denver Elder Law
Woman dies after
leaping in excitement after marriage proposal at edge of cliff – via Gerard
Couzens for the Daily Mail
Funeral home
doesn’t have rights over Lee Harvey Oswald’s original coffin – via David
Montgomery at the New York Times
Zoroastrians’
Towers of Silence, used for disposal of the dead, soon to be no more – via Nina
Strochlic at the Daily Beast
MOURNING
Mindfulness and
meditation can aid the grieving – from Via Brian Simmons at Elephant
Journal
New Buddhist
mini-altars aid the mourning – Alison Lesley in World Religion News
FUNERALS
The 9 most
innovative funeral professionals – by Rochelle Rietow at funeralOne
The crazy, mean
church people protest talk of legislation to restrict crazy, mean funeral
protest demonstrations of the kind practiced by the crazy, mean church people – from James Q.
Lynch at the Cedar Rapids Gazette
Where
the dead are preserved traditionally – from Fred Kibor at the
Standard Digital (Kenya)
Funeral for
prosecutor suspected to have been murdered turns into protest – via Joshua
Partlow for the Washington Post
Funeral home
wants to expand so that families can participate in cremation ceremonies – via Lyn Moore
in mlive.com
OBITS
Sexist, insulting
obit for novelist McCullough causes stir – by Claire Fallon at the Huffington
Post
A tribute to a
10th-grade English teacher – by John Dickerson in Slate
King Abdullah:
evil dictator or advocate of democracy? Depends on who you read – from Keane
Bhatt at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Self-penned obit
starts with a gag
– via Fausto Giovanny Pinto
Democrat gets to crack on the Republicans in her obit – via the Moscow-Pullman Daily
News
Recording life’s
stories
– from Wanda Moeller at the Ottumwa Courier