Archive for April, 2006
Acts of Vandalism at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, MA
It’s amazing how little respect some people have for the dead. The Boston Globe reports that last month, a group of vandals toppled over 90 headstones at historic Laurel Hill Cemetery in Fitchburg, MA. A photo on the Boston Globe site shows a limestone Civil War memorial lying on its side.
View PostA Look at Oakwood, the Oldest Cemetery in Austin
The Austin Chronicle has a good article on the history of Austin’s first city-owned burial grounds as of the mid-1850s – Oakwood Cemetery. Some of the interesting features of the article include social segregation and blunt descriptions of death.
View PostElaborate Cemetery Mausoleums are Back in Style
If you ever get the chance to walk through one of the historical garden cemeteries like Laurel Hill in Philly or Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, you’ll find all sorts of elaborate mausoleums and memorials. But some time ago, that went out of fashion for simpler tombstones.
View Post$25000 Will Buy You A Pet Cemetery In Missouri
If you’ve ever wanted to own a pet cemetery, now’s your chance. Cedar Hills Pet Cemetery is for sale in Cape Girardeau County. CBS5.com has an interview (and online video coverage) with owner, Alaina Hinze, who bought the cemetery 5 years ago when she was 24. She’s been the sole employee ever since. But now [...]
View PostRestoring The Cemeteries of New Orleans
According to Czech website, Radio.cz, a team of 3 Czech cemetery restorers will be working with the US non-profit, Save Our Cemeteries to assess the damages of New Orlean’s cemeteries caused by Hurricane Katrina.
View PostMissing Tomb Stones at Jugha Cemetery
A recent article by IWPR.com reveals the fate of Jugha Cemetery – one of the most famous medieval Christian cemeteries in Azerbaijan (a primarily Muslim nation between Iran and Russia which gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991).
View PostHumorous Links on Death: Death Clock, Find a Death, and The Dead Pool
The internet has all kinds of bizarre sites on death. For instance, The Death Clock, an internet site that will tell you how long you have left, down to the second. Of course, it’s all in good humor based on averages – type in your age, sex, outlook on life, BMI, and whether or not [...]
View PostDeath and Dying: The Widower Effect
A new study by Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania reports that people who have lost a spouse within the last 30 days are significantly more likely to die. The study followed more than 518,000 couples older than 65.
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