DEATH
“10
Scientific Explanations for Near-Death Experiences” – via Listverse
What’s
it like to work on Death Row? – from Kim Bellware in the Huffington Post
Yom
Hashoah a chance to remember not only the Holocaust, but the lives of Jews in
Europe before – by Edward Serrota in Haaretz
Do
Belgian doctors “hasten death” in the terminally ill without request? –
from Thomas D. Williams in Breitbart
The changing
causes of death
– from Nick Triggle at the BBC
Mysterious
death brings Hazmat crew to scene – via KPHO
Research
uncovers story behind lone civilian death at Appomattox – from Steve
Szkotak at AP
What do you do
with a dead astronaut? – by Daniel Oberhaus in Slate
Death a big
moneymaker for Legacy.com – via Melanie Payne at the News-Press (FL)
Scientists
torture rats to gain insight on brain’s role in death – via Susan
Scutti at Medical Daily
Taxidermy
classes at the Morbid anatomy Museum – by Stuart Miller at the New York Times
MOURNING
Slideshow:
Mourning the Garissa massacre – from Reuters
Mourning
Gunter Grass – via Deutsche Welle
Balloonists
salute slain bride – via Yahoo News
Coverage
of FDR’s death, 70 years ago – from Roger DuPuis in the Wilkes-Barre Times
Leader
More
memories of FDR’s death – from Kelly Hopper in the Dayton Daily News
His
year of traditional Jewish mourning closes – from Howard Barbanel in the
Huffington Post
“How
the world mourned Lincoln” – by Matt Ford in the Atlantic
FUNERALS
Coverage
of Lincoln’s funeral odyssey, 150 years ago – from Alma Gaul at the
Quad-City Times
Welcome
to my funeral! – by Stu Bykofsky at philly.com
Very different
kinds of press coverage for police victim Walter Scott’s funeral – by Angela
Bronner Helm at News One
Funerals for the
two victims of NYC gas blast – via Robert Stolarik in the New York
Times
Funeral
director challenged emotionally by wave of killings – via Kinfay Moroti
Funeral homes
expand into catering, reception offerings – from Hanna Raskin in The Post
and Courier
Local funeral
homes squawk as big company muscles in – via Patti Mengers in the Mainline
Media News
‘Grave Matters’
teaches evolution of funeral industry – by Eric Hrin in the Daily Review