DEATH WEBLINKS (For Patrick Ashwood’s Death & Dying Sections at
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General Information
Hawkeye library search and periodical search. You can
also search city and UNI libraries. Have
your library card handy to renew your books.
Hawkeye’s
Student Handbook on-line.
Smarthinking
information Get help online with your
papers.
Social
Science, Education and Wellness Our department’s website.
Here is a link to the 8th
edition website for The
Last Dance. It has all sorts of
resources including practice quizzes for
each chapter and word glossaries.
General
Death Research
Association
for Death Education and Counseling - ADEC. This is a professional society for
death educators (like me) and counselors. They have many professional and
educational opportunities. Their conferences are very interesting.
Sociology
of Death and Dying
is what the site calls itself. There are some strange but interesting things
here.
Michael
Leming's website.
Dr. Leming writes an excellent Death and Dying text and teaches at
Encyclopedia of Death &
Dying I am not sure exactly who put this together but the information seems
well referenced. It is like a Death Encyclopedia.
National
Museum of Funeral History. (No really!) In Houston TX.
Museum of
Funeral Customs.
In Springfield IL near Lincoln’s Tomb.
Dying.About.com General website which can
lead you to much information and ads.
John Edward’s website. Can JE communicate with the
dead?
Csicop The Csicops say No to JE and others.
Godchecker A humorous but useful site on identifying and
understanding gods of various cultures.
Blogs & Memorial Sites
Legacy Matters – Many death postings
and blogs
Body Donation & Organ Transplants
Iowa Donor Network. An information site on organ
transplants specific to
Transplant Living UNOS website.
Very up-to-date information and data on transplants.
Deeded Body Program
for University of Iowa.
Body Donation University of Minnesota’s
website on body donation.
SAPIC State Association for the Preservation of
Iowa Cemeteries. As it states this group preserves and protects Iowa
cemeteries. Here you will find cemetery laws, info on cleaning and fixing
stones (under the first link), You can
report a neglected cemetery.
Find a Grave. Where are the dead and famous buried? Find out here.
http://www.potifos.com/cemeteries.html
Links to cemetery information
including history, preservation, laws, etc.
Also you can find where famous people are buried. All sorts of information.
http://alsirat.com/silence/ More cemetery links. Also includes a concise
history.
Graveyards
of Chicago. Pictures of
San Francisco area Cemeteries Interesting info on a city which moved most
of its cemeteries out of town.
Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center in
Chicago has some helpful links.
The Dougy Center for Grieving Children
& Families has more good information.
Consumer Protection
(including prepaying and funeral trade rules)
Funeral Consumers Alliance. The main organization supporting alternative burials and reasonably priced funerals and burial. Strong activist bend to this group.
FCA e-mail: fca@funerals.org http://www.funerals.org/PreneedFunerals/ This link takes
you to the FCA’s official statement on prepaying.
Smart
Money Good article on how to shop
for a funeral.
AARP
A great AARP page with information on prepaying for funerals. Don't do it, is the conclusion.
Do not prepay says AARP with a new rip-off to report.
US
News & World Reports says
prepaying not such a good idea. Think of alternatives.
FTC. If funeral directors will not let
you use your own casket or violate other FTC rules, you can either threaten to
call the FTC or complain on this website.
The Funeral
Trade Rules from the FTC page.
FTC
State Funeral Law Directory Provides
a directory to find funeral laws in the massive state codes & statutes
Funeral Ethics Association This group
attempts to work out differences between consumers and the funeral industry.
You can complain through this group.
Legal
Wills. A legal site from Nolo which clearly explains issues concerning legal
wills
The
Internet Cremation Society site. This site has a search tool to find less
expensive cremation societies. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any in
Cremation
Society of Eastern Iowa site.
They say membership will get a direct cremation for just over $1000 if you are
within 70 miles of
Cremation
Association of North America Lots
of statistics and information about cremation.
Cross-Cultural Death & Beliefs
http://www.dreamtime.net.au/dreaming/index.htm Check out the Australian Aboriginal beliefs of creation
and the afterlife: Dreamtime.
http://www.tricycle.com/ Tricycle,
a Buddhist magazine and website, has loads of information on Buddhism as well
as the Buddhist's belief of afterlife and reincarnation.
Reincarnation A very detail discussion of
Reincarnation. A good site for other
cross cultural religion information.
Hmong Culture
including funeral music
Dead Body Research
The Body Farm The
research center and anthropology department known as the body farm.
Body Farm lessons A lovely article on the Body Farm and related research on decomposition in caskets.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/31/body.farm/
Body Farm article.
http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/multimedia/decomposition/decomposition.html
Stages of decomposition
http://deathonline.net/index.cfm
The Australian museum has an informative site on death.
Centre for Death Education and Bereavement
at King's College in Ontario. This web site also lists all the colleges
with degrees and courses in death studies.
You have to dig a bit for this.
There is not much online for continuing one’s education in thanatology.
Embalming.net some good info on embalming
Ethics, Euthanasia, and Advanced Directives
Compassion & Choices (formerly End of Life Choices group and
before that The Hemlock Society)
focuses much of its attention on supporting physician-assisted dying and
euthanasia.
Death With
Dignity works to support euthanasia especially in Oregon.
Euthanasia.com/ Curiously enough, euthanasia.com is a source
of information AGAINST euthanasia and physician-assisted dying.
Legaldocs sells legal documents for many
purposes. The living will however is free!
Funeral Alternatives
$800
funeral? An MSN article about less
expensive alternatives to the typical funeral
Humanist
Ceremony A funeral/ceremony with no religion
National Funeral Directors Association This is the largest organization of
funeral directors in the U.S. There is a great deal of information on this
website.
National Funeral Directors and Mortician
Association The oldest African-American funeral directors organization.
International Cemetery and Funeral Association.
This website offers
consumers and those in the death business many resources. There is also information on the Cemetery Consumer Service Council which helps consumers deal with
complaints on cemeteries.
The
Undertaking You can watch the entire Frontline program on Thomas Lynch’s
funeral business. Lynch is the undertaker poet and author. This show is not a critique of the funeral
industry. Lynch is a major advocate of embalming.
American Board of Funeral
Service Education A website that links to mortuary
schools accredited by this organization around the country.
University of Minnesota's Mortuary school.
Worsham mortuary school in Chicago.
DMACC Mortuary Program
started in Fall 2004. You need an AA degree or equivalent. This is the only program in Iowa.
Death Clock Tick Tock Check
when you are going to die. This is nasty news.
Longevity Game.
Another way to find out when you might die.
Death Psychic. And here is how you
are going to die. What fun.
Reincarnation Form What will
you be when you come back?
What do you want on your tombstone?
And then you can make your grave marker.
Body Worth How much is your body worth? For some reason this site thinks they know.
Darwin Awards People die in the
strangest ways. You might find these
funny, perhaps not.
Green Cemeteries and Burial (see
also Home Funerals)
Green Burial Council A national group attempting to oversee the
green burial movement.
Natural Burial in the US A group which has information on groups
worldwide that advocate natural burial
Green
Burial An article advocating green burial.
Good argument.
http://www.memorialecosystems.com/
South Carolina
Recycle
your body A nice article on green
burial in South Carolina. Seattle
Green Cemetery
http://www.glendalenaturepreserve.org/
Florida
Forever
Fernwood California
http://www.ethicianfamilycemetery.org/
Texas
The Centre for Natural
Burial Burying them green all around the world
Forest of Memories and the Green
Burial Movement
Grief Support and Stress Management
(see
Hospice and Support Groups as well)
The M.I.S.S. Foundation supports
those bereaved by the death of a child
Association for Death Education and
Counseling (ADEC) The
main professional organization for death studies. This is a link to their grief
support pages.
Grief Net
This site helps with all sorts of loss.
It has information and a place to post comments.
Grief Healing Another site with resources for loss.
Grief
Works Another site for help
with grief.
Grief Tips This is a
nice collection of suggestions to help people with their grief.
Grief Store Some resources for grief work for sale.
Beyond Indigo
More grief resources
Pet Bereavement A site devoted to bereavement related to the death of pets.
Stress
Management A site offering
suggestions for coping with stress.
Numerous strategies.
Mayo Clinic –
Stress Management The Mayo Clinic’s
suggestions for coping with stress. Many
links.
Mental
Health America – Stress Management
More coping suggestions and links.
Coping.org How can you go wrong with something called
coping.org?
Saintly Relics A site about saintly relics.
Saints Alive Another
site about saintly relics.
Black Death
An interesting site on The Black Death in medieval Europe.
Historical Images This is a huge webpage that takes a long time
to load but it has 100s of images of the Dance of Death, Hell, human
dissection, etc. from mostly early European artists. Also poems and text on death. Not organized
in any particular way.
Home Funerals (see also Green Cemeteries)
Funeral
Consumers Alliance page on caring for your dead. Family directed funerals
Answers to questions raised
by the Family
Undertaking video
Final Passages advocates caring for
your dead.
Crossings supports and educates people to
care for their own dead.
Thresholds is a funeral home that helps
families care for their dead.
Natural Death Centre in the UK has
advocated home funerals for a long time.
Home Funeral Example from MSNBC
High Costs
and the Home Funeral alternative 2008
News article on the economic crisis and cost of funerals.
Hospice Foundation of America This group puts on the annual teleconference for griefwork. (Next one is April 2009) The site includes much information on hospice.
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative
Medicine
Hospice organization for physicians.
Cedar Valley Hospice. This is the local hospice and its
resources.
MUSIC THANATOLOGY This association focuses on music therapy for
the dying.
Chalice of Repose More music thanatology.
Caring Info Focuses on end of life care and caregiving
Trappist Monks in the New Mellary
Abbey near Peosta IA make and sell wood caskets and urns.
National Casket Retailer's Association. A colorful site with links to
funeral retailers by state (none in Iowa). The NCRA is also a watchdog group
watching the funeral industry for violations of the FTC funeral rules. Many
links related to the FTC rules.
Calendar? Perhaps you
need a funeral home calendar. Strange
Assorted Death Related Stuff Bluelips has some interesting stuff related
to death and pirates.
Here
are some examples of on-line retailers.
I have no idea if they are legitimate. They are here to help you with
the planning your funeral assignment.
Beam me out to space please
Star Trek, baseball, the
Vatican, puppies, and precious moments?
Caskets Express Discount Urns Old Pine Box Simple Caskets
Shop for a rock with Monument Builders of America
Hawkeye Counselors are there to help you. Our Student Health Clinic can also help
National Suicide Hotline 1 800 SUICIDE or 1-800-784-2433
Suicide.org Includes state hotline numbers
and information to help prevent suicide.
Iowa has a statewide 2-1-1 number for help.
Befrienders International This site has a short quiz (under myths) on
suicide and other information regarding the topic.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This site has nice charts on suicide
rates and much on prevention.
American Association of Suicidology Check out the site the page
"About Suicide". The site also has good statistics on suicide.
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education. More good information and links on
suicide.
Jed Foundation This site was set up by bereaved parents to
prevent suicide and provide help for depression.
HOPES A help site to help prevent suicide and to
help survivors.
Compassionate Friends Compassionate
Friends for parents whose children died at any age.
Adult sibling grief Sibling loss as an adult.
Interesting Books on Death
topics
Grave
Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of
Burial by Mark Harris. NY: Scribner, 2007
*Death
to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? by Kenneth Iserson. Tucson AZ:
Galen Press, 1994
*The
American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford. New York: Knopf, 1998
*Rest
in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century
America by Gary Laderman. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003
*Caring for the
Dead: Your Final Act of Love
by Lisa Carlson. Hinesburg, VT: Upper Access, 1998
*Dealing
Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial by Ernest Morgan. Bayside NY: Zinn
Communications. 13 editions.
*These books are in the HCC
library and many other libraries.
If you find more interesting death
resources on the web or elsewhere please contact me through e-mail Pat Ashwood pashwood@hawkeyecollege,.edu (you can "send" me the webpage) or call
me (319) 296-4430. Thanks.
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