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"After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In Obit, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These poems reinvent the form of newspaper obituary to both name what has died ("civility," "language," "the future," "Mother's blue dress") and the cultural impact of death on the living. Whereas elegy attempts to immortalize the dead, an obituary expresses loss, and the love for the dead becomes a conduit for self-expression. In this unflinching and lyrical book, Chang meets her grief and creates a powerful testament for the living."--
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Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists, artists, and even journalists. Among the prominent Canadians viewed from afar are persons such as Margaret Laurence, Joey Smallwood, K.C. Irving, Raymond Burr and A.J. Casson.
Obituaries --- Newspapers --- Biography --- Dead --- Death notices --- Sections, columns, etc. --- Canada
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Women --- Obituaries --- Sexism in language. --- Arabic language --- English language --- Persian language --- Women in mass media. --- Obituaries --- History --- Social aspects. --- Sex differences. --- Sex differences. --- Sex differences.
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"No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and happenstances that turn out to be life-changing. To be sure, there are stories about Carnival monarchs, great philanthropists, and a few politicians. But because New Orleans embraces eccentric behavior, there are stories of people who colored way outside the lines. For instance, there was the doctor who used his plasma to make his flowers grow, and the philanthropist who took money she had put aside for a fur coat to underwrite the lawsuit that desegregated Tulane University. A letter carrier everyone loved turned out to have been a spy during World War II, and a fledgling lawyer changed his lifelong thoughts about race when he saw blind people going into a Christmas party through separate doors--one for white people and another for African Americans. Then there was the punctilious judge who got down on his hands and knees to edge his lawn--with scissors.Because New Orleans funerals are distinctive, the author includes accounts of four that he covered, complete with soulful singing and even some dancing. As a popular, local bumper sticker indisputably declares, 'New Orleans--We Put the Fun in Funeral'"--
Obituaries --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- New Orleans (La.) --- Social life and customs
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This text discusses issues in the use of human cadavers and tissues in science and medicine. Areas examined include the use of biopsies from surgical operations, the ethics of using human DNA and stem cells in research and the transplantation of animal tissue into humans. This text explores issues surrounding the use of human cadavers and human tissues in science and medicine. This is an area of increasing significance in contemporary society, as more and more techniques become available for manipulating human genes and human material (including embryos, body organs and brain tissue). These issues are explored through case studies from contemporary society. Some of the most topical issues examined include plastination of human bodies as an art form, the use of biopsies from surgical operations, the ethics of using human DNA and stem cells in research, and the debate surrounding the transplantation of animal tissue and organs into humans.
Dead --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social aspects --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries
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With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of
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Biography: 1900-1999 --- Dutch literature: authors --- Biographies --- Levensbeschrijvingen --- Littérature néerlandaise --- Nederlandse letterkunde --- 839.3 "19" --- Authors, Dutch --- -Authors, Dutch --- -Authors, Flemish --- -Obituaries --- -Newspapers --- Biography --- Dead --- Death notices --- Flemish authors --- Dutch authors --- Nederlandse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Sections, columns, etc. --- Authors, Flemish --- Obituaries --- Biography. --- -Nederlandse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 839.3 "19" Nederlandse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Newspapers
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Death notices --- Obituaries --- Abbeys --- Nécrologies --- Abbayes --- Huy (Belgium). --- Abbaye de Neufmoustier --- Huy (Belgium) --- Huy (Belgique) --- Church history --- Sources --- Histoire religieuse --- Christian church history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1799 --- Huy --- Nécrologies
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Folklore --- Vampiers --- Vampires --- Dead --- -Postmortem changes --- -Vampires --- Animals, Mythical --- Superstition --- Change, Postmortem --- Change after death --- Changes, Postmortem --- Changes after death --- Post-mortem changes --- Death (Biology) --- Decomposition (Chemistry) --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Postmortem changes --- Dead (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Lesbian vampires --- Monsters
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Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased's interests should be protected This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly arcane question-can you libel or slander the dead?-and develops it outward, tackling larger and larger implications, until it ends up straddling the borders between law, culture, philosophy, and the meaning of life. A full answer to this question requires legal scholar Don Herzog to consider what tort law is actually designed to protect, what differences death makes-and what differences it doesn't-and why we value what we value. Herzog is one of those rare scholarly writers who can make the most abstract argument compelling and entertaining.
Dead. --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Death --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Law and legislation
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