Biographer -- via the New York Times.
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, September 8, 2014
WEEKLY READER for Sept. 8, 2014 -- Stories on death, dying, mourning and more
TOP STORIES
Google-backed life-extension company Calico partners with
pharmaceutical company AbbVie for $500
million project to “cure death” – from Ben Popper at The Verge
Funeral
home creates history show on death of Lincoln, including replica coffin –
via Eric Hrin of the Daily Review
On Politico, Oren Kessler remembers the
murdered journalist Steve Sotloff
DEATH
Network
helps parents of terminally ill children – by Gabrielle Birkner in Modern
Loss
Interview: Simon Worrall of National Geographic talks to
Judy Bacharach, journalist and author of “Glimpsing
Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life after Death” (CAVEAT: The book publisher
is National Geographic!)
Via Dodai Stwart at Jezebel – Caitlin Doughty at Ask a
Mortician answers: “What
Happens to Your Breast Implants When You Are Cremated?”
Amy
Wallen likes to investigate personalities of the past through cemeteries –
via the San Diego City Beat
Urban
Death Project has an idea: compost yourself – from Springwise
MOURNING
Emma G. Fitzsimmons and James Barron of the New York Times
report on Joan
Rivers’s funeral
Mementoes
as embodiments of mourning – from Susan Dunne at the Hartford Courant
Four
dozen tow trucks form procession for deceased young driver – via Marilyn
Miller at the Akron Beacon Journal
OBITS/TRIBUTES
Better
a feature story than a paid obit – from Katherine Crosier on Another Year
of insanity
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Donatas Banionis
Iconic actor -- via rferl.org. Best remembered in the West for his leading role as Kris in Tarkovsky's original "Solaris"
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
David Anderle
Record producer and music executive -- via Billboard. He signed Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention to Verve! Records produced for Judy Collins, Delaney & Bonnie, Rita Coolidge, and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
Elizabeth Egbert
Artist -- via the Arizona Republic.
Elizabeth Egbert from Architectural League of New York on Vimeo.
Elizabeth Egbert from Architectural League of New York on Vimeo.
Andrew V. McLaglen
Director of film and television -- via the Hollywood Reporter. The son of Oscar-winning actor Victor McLaglen, Andrew specialized in Westerns, and was a key contributor to the genre during one of its lean periods. He shot 96 episodes of "Gunsmoke" and 116 of "Have Gun-Will Travel." Among his films are "Shenandoah," "Chisum," "Hellfighters," "The Devil's Brigade," and "The Rare Breed."
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Gottfried John
Actor -- via Deutsche Welle. A frequent collaborator with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he was also seen in the Bond film "GoldenEye."
WEEKLY READER: Roundup of stories on death, dying, mourning, and more
TOP STORIES
“10
reasons why I want to talk about death” from Elaine Voci in the
Indianapolis Star
Mourning
Michael Brown, from Stacia Brown
Caleb Wilde in Confessions of a Funeral Director makes some
predictions about the future of the funeral industry
DEATH
The
life and death of pioneering thanatologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, via David
Kessler in the Huffington Post
Medical
insurance may begin to cover end-of-life discussion payments for doctors –
via Pam Belluck at the New York Times
Assisted-death
comedy creates stir at Venice Film Festival – via ABC News
Sierra
Leone funeral is catalyst for 14 Ebola infections – via Donald G. McNeil,
Jr. at the New York Times
Death
over Dinner’s Michael Hebb talks to the Tennessean’s Alex Tolbert
‘The
Death of Klinghofer’: Is it wrong for the Metropolitan Opera to censor itself?
From Ethics Alarms
MOURNING
Police
violence victim Michael Brown’s funeral – reported by Monica Davey in the
New York Times
Grief
and change, by Eliza Berman in Slate
FUNERALS
Hearse
horse dies in harness – via arbroath.blogspot.com.
A
rundown on funeral costs from Michael Camacho in the Pacific Daily News
Portrait
of a funeral home’s staff beautician – by Tom Eblen in the Lexington
Herald-Leader
Charles Bowden
Journalist -- via Forbes. A pretty amazing writer, with the guts to go into Ciudad Juarez and write extensively about the evil going on there.
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