TOP STORIES
An
interview with New York Times obituarist Margalit Fox – from Alex Ronan of
the Paris Review
Bourree Lam interviews celebrity
mortician Caitlin Doughty in the Atlantic
From Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a Funeral Director: “Why
Funeral Directors Become Narcissists: Seven Reasons”
DEATH
A pagan
perspective on death and burial – from Cara Schulz at The Wild Hunt
What
can you do when someone dies on a plane? – by Laura Begley Bloom of Yahoo
Travel
Plastinated
corpse exhibit banned in Berlin – per NBC News.
“Death
Row dinners” concept so revolting it’s canceled before it begins – via
Alain Tolhurst
MOURNING
Sisters
honor deceased bride-to-be by participating in mud race – from Susanna Kim
at ABC News
Looking at the dynamics of grief
and mourning for the “suicide-bereaved” – via Counseling Connection
“The
Jewish Mourning Tradition of Shiva” from Zoe Byrne at Seven Ponds
Mourning
on social media by Jennifer Golbeck in Psychology Today
FUNERALS
“Food
of the Dead: A Culinary History of Funeral Food” at the Brooklyn Brainery
on Oct. 29
Woman
to have Philadelphia Eagles-themed funeral – from David Chang at NBC
Philadelphia.
In
praise of funeral slide shows: from Sheryl at Being Fifty-Something
Mortician
to bring funeral collection to horror/sci-fi convention Shocka-Con; from Zack
Harold at the Charleston Daily Mail
Randy Hutchinson of the Better Business Bureau, in the
Jacksonville Sun, tells us about the
FTC consumer-protection funeral rules
Jeremy Glass at Supercompressor asks morticians: Can
you really treat a body like the title character in “Weekend at Bernie’s?”
New
funeral customs in Uganda – from Carol Kasujja of New Vision
Pre-paid
funeral accounts gone after funeral director goes out of business – via Joe
Ducey at ABC 15 Arizona
Funeral
co-ops grow in Canada to reduce costs – via Justina Reichel at the Epoch
Times
From Confessions of a Funeral Director, another
green burial idea
A
funeral for the Corcoran Gallery of Art – via Maura Judkis of the
Washington Post
OBITS
On Catholic Sports Net, Billy Reed eulogizes
his mentor, the late Larry Van Hoose
When an
obituary is written to make the writer look good, by Joan King in the
Gainesville Times
Obituary
reveals man’s five-year affair – via Sam Rkaina in The Mirror
In TIME magazine, Helen Shulman memorializes
her cousin David
HUMOR
From Clickhole: “Death
is Just a Natural Part of this Statue of Liberty Tour”