OBIT
WEEKLY READER
DEATH
Video: Caitlin Doughty on the real 'Body Worlds' story -- via the Order of the Good Death
5
of the famous who feared being buried alive – via Bess Lovejoy in Mental
Floss
You
can take a test to find out if you will die in 5 years – via Sarah Knapton
at the Telegraph
Would
you like to take it? No? – via Fay Schopen in the Guardian
The
Meaning of Life Project – via Kim Evenson at Legacy
‘Too poor to
die’
– via Dawn Foster in the Guardian
A guide to
marrying the dead
– via Ella Morton at Atlas Obscura
The latest thing
for the medical world: synthetic cadavers – via HuffPost Science
Seven children’s
books that may aid them to understand death – via Maria Popova in Brain
Pickings
Does
the fear of death motivate everything we do? – via Marc Parry at the
Chronicle of Higher Education
How
to make sure your end-of-life directives are followed – Jessica Nutik
Zitter in the New York Times
New doc on dying appears –
via Rita Heidtman at TIME
5
end-of-life films – via Karen Wyatt at the Huffington Post
An
update on the phenomenon of death cafes – via Clear Barret at the Financial
Times
Weird
ways to die in Tudor England – via Helen Thompson at the Smithsonian
Museum of
Death opens branch in New Orleans – via Deepak Sani at WGNO
Conversations
on Death program comes to Colorado – via Whitney Bryan at Hometown Weekly
News
Sometimes
they come back: Rue McClanahan’s retweeted, again – via Amanda Schupak at
CBS News
Films
on dying – via John Patterson at the Guardian
A
restaurant where you dine with the dead – via Han Zhang at Munchies
10
people whose hearts were buried separately from them – via Bess Lovejoy at
Mental Floss
The
science of human decomposition – via Mo Costandi in the Guardian
A tough read:
preparing children who die for burial – via Alejandra Diaz Mattoni
Photographer
makes portraits of those about to die – via Dying Matters
What
happened to the mummy of the man who said he was John Wilkes Booth? – via Christopher
Klein in History in the Headlines
MOURNING
Mourning – a
cultural survey
– via Frannie Silverman in Modern Loss
Facebook
exec ends 30-day Jewish mourning phase – via the Chicago Tribune
Facebook
exec’s essay on grief – via Cathy Brown at Matador Network
‘My two dads’ – grieving someone
before their death – via Ryan Murdock in Modern Loss
Losing
a mother early in life – via Fay Schopen in the Guardian
A
friend helps a friend through his wife’s final illness and death – via Matthew
Teague in Esquire
‘Finding
Order, Out of Sequence’ – via Alizah Salario in the New York Times
‘How
to let go when a loved one is dying’ – via Bonnie Lawrence at PBS
How
to talk to the bereaved – via Kate Whiting in BT
How
to communicate with a grieving coworker – via Laura Shin in Forbes
15
beautiful cemeteries – via Erin Check in BuzzFeed
New
service to aid with burial, mourning info – via the Jerusalem Post
Roadside
markers – proper memorials or safety hazards? – via Ryan Robinson at
Lancaster Online
Cartoon:
A forgotten mausoleum is restored – via Andy Warner on Tumblr
One
family’s mountain pilgrimage in mourning – via Clare Ansberry in the Wall
Street Journal
Concert
aims to reconcile Jewish, Arab grief – via Elhanan Miller in the Times of
Israel
Disney’s
obsession with death – via Sean Braswell at USA Today
Oops
– BBC accidently tweets Queen Elizabeth death notice – via John vibes at
Antimedia
FUNERALS
Morticians volunteer in wake
of Chinese sinking tragedy – via Si Huan at the China Daily
New frontiers in
funerals: Would you like the deceased to make a holographic farewell? – via Lindsey
Bablan at WINK
A good idea,
actually: “comfort dogs” at a funeral home – via Richard Liebson at Lohud
Increased
affluence in Asia makes funeral expos boom – via Jonathan Kaiman at the
L.A. Times
‘Inside a Texas biker
funeral’
– via Aleem Maqbool at the BBC
Our toxic burial
practices
– via Reynard Loki at Alternet
Young people
taking up mortuary trade – via Efia Akese and Dzifa Kegey at the Graphic
(Ghana)
Try
an organic burial pod – via Bored Panda
You get what you
pay for – discount mortician indicted – via Trudie Mason at CJAD
OBITS
Pretty nifty
obituary tribute from a journalist grandson – via Peter Nikeas in the
Chicago Tribune