Death, Mourning & the Afterlife
This week is the 35th Annual AGS (Association for Gravestone Studies) Conference, being held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey. (Conference runs June 19-24, 2012; Ed Snyder will be on site in the Sales Room on Friday, June 22 with his StoneAngels artwork – cards, prints, and books! (Read more here: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/conferences.htm) Headstone […]
Drawing from his experience as a paramedic in Harlem, the author takes us on a gritty ride through the squalid backstreets of NYC circa 1990. Through his main character Frank, a paramedic, Mr. Burke relates life through ambulance calls with gruesome clarity and realism.
The author of this poetic odyssey, Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950), was an enormously prolific American writer and poet. He is known mainly for Spoon River, his most popular work.
In Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach gave a humorous summary of what happens to our bodies when we die. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife looks beyond the physical for proof that a part of us survives death.
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