Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.
Monday, March 16, 2015
Deathcetera: The week in death, mourning, and more
DEATH
Video: how to
you talk to your parents about death? – from Caitlin Doughty at the Order of
the Good Death
Are you lonely?
That means you’re going to die sooner – via the National Health Service
Pat
Johnson’s ‘Dead of Winter’ series in the Vancouver Courier, on death, mourning,
and ritual:
How the White
House decides which deaths to acknowledge – via Juliet Ailperin at the
Washington Post
New opera:
‘Death with Interruptions’ – via Carol Ness at UC Berkeley News Center
American
Airlines, will you refund our dead daughter’s ticket price? No? Yes? – from Ashlee
Kieler at the Consumerist
Firing squad v.
lethal injection: which one’s the best? – by John Sanburn at TIME magazine
Social Security
keeps paying benefits, even after you die – via Jamie Dupree at WSB
25 significant
books on death, dying, and mourning – via Elizabeth Donnelly at Flavorwire
MOURNING
Cabinet
commemorates Civil War dead – from Allison Meier at Hyperallgeric
Recovered WWII
dog tags help bring closure – from Kim Reishling at KATC
FUNERALS
Facebook sends
funeral director ads to cancer patient’s feed – via Victoria Woolaston at the
Daily Mail
Goin’
all cray-cray with the innovatively designed funeral urns (aka ‘party jars’?)
– by Allen G. Breed at AP
OBITS
A
lovely tribute to former Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer – by Garrett
Epps in the Atlantic
Family speaks
out about addiction in son’s obituary – from Yahoo Health
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Gene Patton
Stagehand and dancer -- via the Hollywood Reporter. AKA Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. Best known for his impromptu performances on "The Gong Show."
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Al Rosen
Former MLB MVP and All-Star with the Cleveland Indians -- via Yahoo Sports. AKA The Hebrew Hammer, Flip.
Friday, March 13, 2015
Roy McKie
Illustrator -- via Publishers Weekly. His style is instantly recognizable, having graced many children's books between 1961 and 2002, including works written by Dr. Seuss, Henry Beard, P.D. Eastman, Bennett Cerf, and others.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Richard Glatzer
Screenwriter, director, and producer -- via the New York Times. Best known for his last film, "Still Alice," which garnered Julianne Moore an acting Oscar.
Jimmy Greenspoon
Keyboardist, vocalist, and composer; best known for his role in Three Dog Night -- via the New York Daily News. AKA The Maestro.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Wayne Kemp
Country music signer and songwriter -- via Rolling Stone. Worked on hits such as "Love Bug," "The Fireman," and "One Piece at a Time."
Deathcetera: the world's news in death and mourning
DEATH
So,
what happens when Queen Elizabeth II dies? – by Rob Price at Business
Insider
Life
is cheap for Nepali workers in the Mideast – from Sugam Pokharel at CNN
‘Death
with Dignity’ laws considered anew in American states – by Michael Ollove
at the Huffington Post
Program enables the
dying to view great art – via the Huffington Post
Coping with
the death of a spouse – from Kate Ashton at the BBC
Virginia
legislation protects postmortem electronic footprints – via the Associated
Press
Seven kinds of
near-death experiences – via Rachel Nuwer at the BBC
Thomas Ades’s
new work, “Totentanz,”
reviewed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker
Teacher jailed
for showing class extremely inappropriate film “The ABCs of Death” – from Isabelle
Khoo at parentdish.ca
Final tweets – from oddee.com
MOURNING
Putin critic
Nemtsov’s funeral march – by Masha Lipman at the New Yorker
Russian
TV covers Nemtsov’s death, funeral with massive amounts of character
assassination – via Yelena Rykovtsena at Radio Free Europe
Kurdish singers
preserve thousands of legends, and songs of mourning – via the
Anadolu Agency in the Daily Sabah
Celebrity death
and social media
– by Catrina Dennis at moviepilot
“Spocking fives”
tradition in Canada surges in wake of Leonard Nimoy’s death – via Anne
quito in Quartz
MMORPG
(Massively multi-player online role-playing game) “Star Trek online” builds
tributes to late Leonard Nimoy -- inside game – from Mtthew Jackson at Blastr
FUNERALS
Women
moving into mortuary profession – via Katherine Johnson at WDAZ
Victorian
architect dreamed of a giant London ‘vertical necropolis’ – via Kriston
Capps at CItylab
5th
Century B.C.E. funeral complex unearthed in France – via The Blaze
VA
causes delays in veterans’ funerals – via Nathan Baca at WBNS
Lighthearted
feature story about a young mortician – via Thaddeus Mast at the Laramie
Boomerang
Mortuary science
is changing
– from Andre Eggert at the Minnesota Post
Funeral protest
restrictions moved in Iowa – from James Q. Lynch at the Gazette
Analyzing
funeral costs – via Dustin Klemann at KTVQ
OBITS
Some
caveats concerning New York Times obits – from Kevin Lollar at the
News-Press
Dirk Shafer
Model and filmmaker -- via the New York Times. A sexual icon to straight women, Shafer's coming out as gay forms the substance of his documentary film "Man of the Year."
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