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The Viking Funeral on Film - By Gail Rubin
Some folks think a Viking funeral would be a cool way to send off a loved one. This idealized grand gesture is totally influenced by films churned out by Hollywood studios.The way the movies portray it, Vikings dispatched their honored dead by laying the body on a boat and setting the vessel on fire with flaming arrows. Let's trace the history of this notion through film. (The links in[...]
A Museum of the Dead, for the Living
When Houston, Texas comes to mind one may think of the Astrodome or perhaps NASA and the Johnson Space Center but few people know that Houston is also the home of the National Museum of Funeral History (NMFH). Located in the heart of the Lone Star state, the NMFH is the most prominent funeral home museum in North America, perhaps even the world.Housed in its over 35,000 sq. ft. complex,[...]
Photographer who Captured Nation's Grief, Succumbs to Cancer
The photographer who took the famous picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin during the slain president's 1963 funeral has died. Stan Stearns, 76, died of cancer on Friday, March 2, 2012 at a hospice in Harwood, Md.. Stan Stearns captured a nation's grief when he photographed[...]
Social Support during Hard times on Twitter
Social networking sites have given internet users the ability to publicly express their thoughts and feelings, to announce new events and incidents occurring in their lives and all with a few clacks of your keys and a click of your mouse. The most well known social media sites are Facebook and Twitter. Twitter (for those who are not yet familiar) is an online social networking and[...]
"The Beginner's Goodbye": A Grief Observed
In The Beginner's Goodbye, author Anne Tyler celebrates amateurs and novices - beginners still capable of learning. It's this capacity for change that makes Tyler's characters so appealing.She is the patron saint of misfits. Embarking on an Anne Tyler novel is like heading off on vacation to a favorite destination: You're filled with anticipation of pleasure, even though you know the[...]
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