TOP
STORIES
“A death in
Yangon”
– Catherine Anderson’s heart-breaking account of her lover’s public death
“What We Learned
about Death in 2014”
– from Mike Pearl on Vice
DEATH
What killed us
in 2014?
– from Marc Silver at NPR
Remembering
the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami – from Jim Gomez at ABC News
MOURNING
Public mourning:
a brief history
– by Hilda Maclean in The Conversation
From
the Metropolitan Museum of Art – their online
exhibition guide to “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire”
FUNERALS
Funeral director
transports body in pickup truck – via Andy Wise at WCMA-TV
Alternative
funerals in Alabama
– Lucy Berry at al.com.
END-OF-LIFE
ISSUES
Charges at
nursing home highlights vulnerability of elderly – by Tatiana
Schlossberg and Nina Bernstein at the New York Times