MOURNING
Mourning
the lost monuments of Nepal – don’t forget the people who died – via Sandip
Roy at the Huffington Post
Mourning the
migrants killed at sea – via Christopher Miller at Mashable
Palestinians and
Israelis mourn together on Israeli Remembrance Day – via Lily
Galili at i24 News
Gallipoli centenary observances
overcome historic sites; Anzac Day becoming Australian Day of the Dead, ‘military
Halloween’ – via Wendy Frew at the BBC
Canada
observes National Day of Mourning for workers who die on the job – via Vinh
Tien Trinh at the Huffington Post
“Saying goodbye” – via Nation
Hahn at Medium
University of
Virginia plans reconstruction of memorial garden – via Catherine
Griesedieck at the Cavalier Daily
California
seeks to tax memorial DVDs – via Steve Rubenstein at SFGate
DEATH
Armenian
genocide solemnly commemorated on 100th anniversary of outbreak –
via Crystal Boulware at The Public Slate
Death
and mourning in India – via Amrapali Maitra at Scope
Video:
Lovely London, City of . . Death? – via Caitlin Doughty at the Order of the
Good Death
Doughty
gets TV deal to develop her ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ memoir – via Joe
Otterson at The Wrap
Postmortem
bioluminescence – via Esther Inglis-Arkell at io9
‘Edison’s
Last Breath’ – via Dylan at Atlas Obscura
Thrill-seeking
bicyclists love Bolivia’s “Death Road” – via John Otis at the Wall Street
Journal
Digital
immortality: a practical guide – via Jeff Reifman at tuts+
Conversely, how
to get dead relatives OFF line – via Modern Loss
FUNERALS
Cremations
line river in wake of Nepal quake deaths – via Julie Makinen at the L.A.
Times
China nixes
funeral strippers
– via CNN
Cesar
Chavez receives military honors at graveside 22 years after his death – via
Scott Smith at AP
A history of
changing Jewish burial rites – via Elon Gilad at Haaretz
Family sues
after funeral home switches corpses, cremates wrong guy – via Levi
Pulkkinen at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
More on
Lincoln-death anniversary rites – via Joan Dittmann at the Chicago
Tribune
OBITS
Cancer victim
writes her own obituary – via Melissa Chan at the New York Daily News
Hoping to help
others, family posts honest obituary concerning daughter’s overdose death – via Doug
Stanglin at USA Today
The late Richard
Corliss’s top 10 obituaries – via TIME Magazine
‘Find
the Good’: New memoir from small-town obit writer – via Susan Richmond at On
magazine, and the Yakima Herald
Oh dear –
obituary requests for political action on the rise – via Hunter
Schwarz in the Washington Post