The Necropolitan Line:
“This was the London terminus of the Brookwood Necropolis Railway, the first regular train service for the dead.”
~ via London Particulars, visit the site for more info and lots of other interesting stuff…
Raiding Eternity - Myspace - Gizmodo
Comment to above article by MatthewT:
Our digital selves will live on forever…or until the power goes out. But then, maybe not even that long. I have 5.25 inch floppies downstairs that contain papers I’ve written and other things, but that may as well not exist because I have no way of reading those disks anymore.
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Palermo Catacombs
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Washington, D.C., circa 1915. “Grief monument, Rock Creek cemetery.” Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s ambiguously enigmatic bronze memorializing Clover Adams, the society hostess whose suicide led to its commission by her husband, the writer Henry Adams. National Photo Co. Collection glass negative.
~via Shorpy
Catacombs in Palermo
The Well-Dressed Dead by Bob Brier
…the dehydrated dead are clothed in their finest attire—priests wear their robes, military officers their uniforms, and society men and women are dressed as if expecting to attend a dinner or ball. …. The Palermo mummies are ghoulish because they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing—they play at being alive.
A giant tree slowly devours an ancient headstone. (Sighthound’s photostream on Flickr)
Fear Itself
“In the last chapter of his eminently readable exploration of our allegedly dangerous world, Daniel Gardner describes a cemetery in Ontario where a headstone commemorates the six children of one couple, all killed by diphtheria within less than a week in 1902. Far from marking a freakish occurrence, the headstone is a reminder of the vast toll contagious illnesses took on children in the dark days before vaccines all but eradicated such diseases in the industrialized world. It is the final proof of what Gardner argues throughout The Science of Fear: The world we have inherited is in many ways the safest—least risky to the individual and the species—that has ever existed.”
Fear Itself, Evelin Sullivan for Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2008
February 16, 1909, Stabbed to Death in Office Frolic
~via www.kottke.org
