A book about corpses? Sure, why not?
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Category Archives: Funerals
My choice for best academic book of 2015
My choice for Inside Higher Ed‘s Readers’ Choice Awards for best academic book published this year: #IHEReadersChoice “Dead Matter” about …
Fallujah mortuary log book to be on display in Marine museum
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is expanding, and this log book from the mortuary at Fallujah will be …
Confederate flag debate hits cemeteries
“Spending taxpayer money on the flag, and displaying it on a public monument, may be one thing; preventing private citizens …
Move over, urns: 4 kind of cool things you can do with ashes, and 1 crazy thing
Ashes can turn up in some unexpected places.
What do you think of these funeral requests?
Some of these responses might surprise you!
Will there be a jar of Vicks in your grave?
What have you seen people buried with? Anything unusual?
3 things making me happy this week (March 27)
This week: Writing, photography, and a king.
RIP Jim Zimmerman
I had heard he had not been well in the past couple of years. Still, I was saddened by the …
In defense of “Wrestling with Death”
I’m sure many people will “slam” WGN America’s new reality show, but I’m not one of them.
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 