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The Future of Death
These are the slides to illustrate the talk I’m giving at the Nebula Conference tomorrow afternoon. This is my first time sharing my slides like this, so I hope it works!
Posted in Good cemetery news
Tagged aquamation, burial in space, cremation, green burial, recompose, The Future of Death, underwater cemetery
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Is the Cemetery Dead?
Is the Cemetery Dead? by David Charles Sloane My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really liked Sloane’s other cemetery book, The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History. Times have changed since that was written and cemeteries have started … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery book review
Tagged cemeteries, cemetery history, cremation, ghost bike
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Cemetery of the Week #163: Neptune Memorial Reef
Neptune Memorial Reef International waters off of Key Biscayne, Florida N 25° 42.036′ W 80° 05.409′ Founded: 2007 Size: 16 acres Number of interments: There are 1200 places available “in the reef’s initial development.” More than 200 placements have been … Continue reading
Death’s Garden: Coimetrophobia
by David Bingham Here is a word that you may not be familiar with: coimetrophobia, the fear of cemeteries. My Portuguese wife does not share my love of burial grounds. Intimations of mortality cause her acute anxiety. Gravestones, mausoleums, hearses, … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery essay, Death's Garden Revisited
Tagged bullfighters, cremation, Deaths Garden, Lisbon cemetery, longreads, Portugese cemetery
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Death’s Garden: Martinique—an Island of Mystery
by K. R. Morrison Martinique was one of the stops on our 1996 cruise of the Caribbean, one that my husband and I were eager to explore. After all, this might be the only time we’d be here, and we wanted to … Continue reading