Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Deathcetera: The week in death and mourning

DEATH

Want to become compost? Urban Death Project needs you – via Mark Prigg in the Daily Mail


Cincinnati Ballet does Mozart ‘Requiem’ – via David Lyman at the Cincinnati Enquirer

Death apps – from Kelly McEvers at NPR


MOURNING

Anger from some regarding roadside memorials – via Chris Holmstrom at KOIN

Lessons in 19th-Century mourning – via Kate Seckinger i the Daily Mail

Review of Scott Simo’s new memoir of his late mother – by Carlos Lozada at the Washington Post



FUNERALS

Program provides burial, services for homeless vets – via Capi Lynn at the Statesman Journal

Richard III reburied – via Sylvia Hui of AP