Links That Will Keep You Awake
Cemeteries
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Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries | This page is good for genealogists, as
it presents resources and datasets for several Anglo-Saxon
cemeteries, including Charlton Plantation, Brighthampton, Harnham
Hill, and more. |
| Association for
Gravestone
Studies | The preservation and study of gravestones. Calls for
papers, conference info, info on how to join, and links. |
| British Columbia
Cemetery Finding Aid. | A database for genealogists, of over 100,000
interments in British Columbia, Canada. |
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Cemeteries of Paris | From a tourist web page, this shows hours
you can tour the cemeteries, where they are located, and provides
telephone numbers. It also mentions famous people who are buried at
each cemetery (Baudelaire, Sartre and Maupassant are all at
Montparnasse, Chopin and Moliere are at Pere-Lachaise). |
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Cemeteries | A links list of cemeteries and graveyard pages. |
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Cemeteries, Graveyards, Burying Grounds | Links to online
resources on cemetery history and preservation. Features some links
to specific individual cemeteries in the U.S. |
| DC
Cemeteries | Cemetery webpages for Washington, DC area
graveyards. |
| Exequien | Cemetery
photos. Highly recommended site. Gorgeous graphics and design. |
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Find-A-Grave | Find out where various celebrities are buried. Search
by name, location, or claim to fame. You can also see pictures of
celebrities' tombstones. |
| Glendale Memorial Gardens
| A cemetery in Ontario, Canada. Information on their cremation and
traditional burial services. |
| Gravestone
Quotes | Epitaphs/quotes from people such as Henry Ward Beecher,
Karen Carpenter, Mel Blanc, and Emily Dickinson. |
| Graveyards of
Chicago | Information on more than twenty graveyards in Chicago,
Illinois. Photographs of various tombstones and some biographical
information on the people buried under them. |
| Green Hill
Cemetery | A cemetery in Greensboro, North Carolina. The history of
the cemetery, beginning in the early 1900's; information on some of it's
notable residents; some of the epitaphs found there; old obituaries; and
an area for tidbits of strange facts about the cemetery. |
| Green-Wood
Cemetery | Brooklyn, New York. Includes a gallery of headstones. |
| Highgate
Cemetery: The Sexton's Tales | A radio program by the BBC, featuring
radio dramas about the people buried beneath Highgate Cemetery. |
| Jewish
Cemetery Project | A genealogical project to locate where Jews are
buried. So far they have discovered 21,000 cemeteries and 330,000 names of
people interred in them. |
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The Land Where I Lie | Headstones, a graveyard gallery. |
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Melbourne Cemetery | An Australian cemetery with a guided walking
tour. See the Tombstone of the week and read about interesting people
buried here. |
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Morticia's Morgue | Morticia's links to cemetery related pages, and a
bibliography. |
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Mount Holly Cemetery | Little Rock, Arkansas cemetery. This is a
photographic essay by Susan Hassed. |
| National Cemetery
System | This site was developed by the Department of Veterans
Affairs. Information on headstones and markers, interment, cemetery grants
program, and a helpful text file called "Seven Questions to Ask when
Responding to a Cemetery Ad." |
| New
Orleans Cemeteries at Virtually New Orleans | Tourist oriented
site. There's a nice chronology of New Orleans cemeteries here,
starting with the year 1721. |
| New
Orleans
Cemetery & Voodoo Pages | Black and white, and colour, photographs of
voodoo-related places and cemeteries in New Orleans. Also dark links,
cemetery links, and New Orleans links. |
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Oak Hill Cemetery | A cemetery in Lewiston,
Illinois. Tidbits about people interred there; some monument pictures; no
info on where the cemetery is or how to visit it. |
| Ontario
Cemetery Finding Aid | A database of over 2 million interments in
Ontario. With a surname to provide, you can find the cemetery name and
location the person is buried in. Plus a list of the cemeteries in the
database. |
| Rosedale & Rosehill
Cemetery (New York, NY) | A cemetery in New York City. Information
on their services. |
| Staglieno
Cemetery | A cemetery in Genova, Italy. Text in Italian and English;
some lovely black and white photos of stone tombs and statues. Don't
miss the page here on Joy Division's choice of two Staglieno statues
for Joy Division album covers. |
| 7th
Gateway to Hell | Forest Park Cemetery, Brunswick, New York.
Some pictures of the cemetery. |
| To Die For! | Cemetery
humor. Last words, a gallery, quotes and trivia. |
| The Tombstone
Tourist | The Internet's expert (Scott Stanton) on gravesites all
over the
world. Here you can find info on hard-to-find gravesites, cemetery
secrets, and biographies of interesting dead people (lots of
musicians!) |
| Union
Soldiers' Cemetery | Oklahoma City cemetery which began in 1921 and
is now called the Oklahoma Veterans' Cemetery. Included is a roster
of burials between 1921 and 1944. |
| U.S.
Cemeteries | A large links list to cemetery web pages in the United
States. |
| Where Dead Politicians
are
Buried | Find where politicians, judges, and diplomats are buried,
and visit links to cemetery and memorial sites. |
| Writ In Water:
Gallery of Memorials for the Dead | A lovely gallery of cemetery
images from England, France, Italy, Ireland, and places in the U.S.
including New Orleans, Santa Cruz, Concord, and Salem. |
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Yahoo's Cemetery Page | Links list to cemetery resources. |
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Dead Pools
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Death
| Before I
Die | Real life
stories about terminal people, and the time right before they died. |
| Bizarre
Suicides | A list of people and the strange ways they chose to off
themselves, including Russian Roulette. |
| Book of the
Dead | "Common and curious ways people have died." Also links to
death related pages, info on famines, plagues, and other mass
killers. |
| The
Clickable Mummy | Click on areas on the mummy to learn about
mummification. |
| Dead
City | Death links, terms of death, poetry about death, and a
tombstone photo or two. |
| Death Clock | A highly
recommended and popular site, where you can see your life counting down.
Also here are obituaries, a Death Clock screen saver, and a hysterical
letter archive. |
| Death and Dementia
(Recommended!) | A large list of annotated links to death and
disfigurement,
crime and punishment, and paranormal anomalies. |
| Death/Tod | Klaus
Medeke's typical nice collection of links to death. |
| Death
Statistics 1900-1997 | A paper by R. J. Rummel, called "Statistics of
Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900." Find all sorts of
interesting tidbits to quote at the dinner table. |
| Dying Words
of Famous People | Dying words of people like Louisa May Alcott,
Thomas Jefferson, and Humphrey Bogart. Also suicide notes, and last words
of prisoners before execution. |
|
Fetal Cannibalism in China | An article. |
| Death and Dying
Articles | Articles on wills and probate, near death experiences, do
it yourself funerals, Quaker back yard garden burials, and letting go of
the body. |
| Death News | A
commercial site offering images and death related news. See the preview
page, or subscribe to get the full version. |
| DeathNet
| Euthanasia, death and dying. |
|
The Electric Chair.Com | Electric chairs, articles on electrocution,
death penalty information. |
| Head-Hunting
Gallery | A bizarre page with pictures of shrunken heads, and info on
tribes that created them. |
| Head
Shrinking by Jivaro Indians | An article. |
|
Infidel Deathbeds | Information on deathbed scenes of various famous
people, including Sir Richard Burton, Charles Darwin, Thomas Paine, and
others. |
| Kearl's Guide
to the Sociology of Death | Sociological thanatology. Death across
cultures and time; death's impacts on social orders; resources; bids for
symbolic immortality and longevity; and more. |
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The Natural Death Center | A non profit organisation in Britain.
You can read
their Natural Death Handbook and info on Living Wills. |
| The Page of
the Dead | Some tomb pictures, and some true stories. |
| Page of the
Dead II | More photos and stories. |
| Project Death in
America | An organization which supports research and scholarship,
related to hospice care. |
|
The WEBster's Death and Dying Page | Tons of very well researched
links to death: pet and animal loss, death in arts and literature,
eulogies and epitaphs, cemeteries, graves and ancient burials, newsgroups
and mailing lists, depression, anxiety and suicide. |
| Yahoo's
Death Page | A links list. |
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Funerals and Burials
| Advance Planning
Network | a commercial site, with information on caskets,
funerals, cremations, urns, and tombstones. Also see the Funeral
Tidbits page for some trivia on funeral history. |
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Cremation
History | An article on the history of cremation, beginning in
3000 BC. |
| Cremation Society of
Riverside County, California | A commercial site, with an urn
showcase. |
|
Egyptian Funerary Objects | Pictures of an ossuary, a coffin, a
mummy mask and more. |
| Embalming
Techniques | Part of the Tall Man's Mausoleum (a Phantasm movie
site), this is an article on embalming tips. |
| Funeral and
Cremation
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions and their answers, on what funeral
directors do, the purpose of public viewings, the purpose of
embalming, how much funerals cost. |
| Funerals and
Ripoffs | Information on scams and ripoffs by the funeral
industry, from a detractor. Info on recent articles on this topic,
examples of differences in prices for the same exact funeral. |
| Funeral Help Program
| A commercial page, with a funeral property exchange,
information on scams, how to save money on caskets, links to memorial
societies, and death-related books for sale. |
| FuneralNet | A
directory of funeral homes in the United States. They have a separate
section for Veterans Administration cemeteries. There is a great
information page with funeral and creation questions, info on
pre-planning funerals, living wills, a glossary of funeral terms, and
information on social security benefits. |
| Funeral and
Mortuary Societies of America | Information on memorial
societies, consumer alerts, FAQ, information on how to complain about
unethical funeral homes, funeral humor, caring for your own dead. |
| Funeral Service Center
| Funeral home listings, want ads, a chat area for funeral
service professionals, and several hundred funeral related links. |
| Gearty-Delmore Funeral
Chapels | A commercial chapel in Minneapolis-St. Paul. |
| Grim Rides
Funeral Car Club | San Francisco Bay Area car club. Info on how to
join, and some pictures of neat old hearses. Also the Hearse Owner's
FAQ, and a list of Hearses in the Movies. |
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Homemade Casket Plans | Make your own casket, using plans you
can buy at this site. |
|
Carlos A. Howard Funeral Home | The first funeral home on the
net, and the first funeral home I ever linked to! The business is in
Norfolk, Virginia. |
| Internet Cremation
Society | They describe themselves as "an organization that
screens cremation service providers throughout the U.S.
and Canada and selects just one per geographic region to be
included in its on-line listing." Several briefly annotated links. |
| Los
Angeles
Grim Society | An organization of people who enjoy researching
the grimmer and more morbid aspects of Los Angeles's history: its
murders, cemeteries, disaster sites, and houses that once belonged to
now-dead celebrities. |
| Los Angeles
Hearse Society | An organization dedicated to the preservation
of funeral service vehicles. |
| Mortuary
Makeup | A commercial site selling makeup, texture, and wax for
funerary purposes. |
|
Mummification | A mummification service business. An image
archive, info on modern mummification, how to arrange for yourself or
your pet to be mummified. |
| Museo de las
Momias | Museum of the Mummies is located in Guanajuato, Mexico.
See pictures of some of the mummies displayed there. |
| National Academy of Mortuary
Science | Learn how to become a certified mortuary technician.
Also a photo gallery of caskets, and funeral links. |
| National Funeral Directors
Association | An events calendar, information on membership,
some consumer resources |
| Online Urn Mall | Shop for
a cremation urn mall on the Net. |
| The People's Memorial
Association | A non-profit consumer organization striving for
economy and simplicity in funeral arrangements. Some information on
donating organs and tissues, a page with info for Catholics, help in
planning death services, and how to join the association. |
| Professional
Car Society | An association promoting the preservation and
restoration of professional cars, including hearses, flower cars,
limousines and sedan ambulances. |
| San Francisco College of Mortuary
Science | Information on the college of mortuary science, why
you might want to attend it, a labor market analysis, and information
on upcoming events and meetings. |
| Wills on the
Web | Enjoy the guilty pleasure of reading famous people's
wills. See what Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis left to her relatives,
peek at Elvis Presley's relatively boring document, see what
arrangements Walt Disney made, and don't miss the older wills from
the 1600s and 1700s. |
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Valley Hills Funeral Home. | A business located in Yakima,
Washington. Links to bereavement resources, and funeral homes on the
Net. |
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Graphic Depictions of Death and Illness
| Deathnet.Com | A
commercial service offering pictures and AVIs of dead people and
mutilations. They offer some sample files to view. You need a javascript
enabled browser. |
|
Diseased Body Parts | Color pics of bumpy skin, an icky foot, and
more. I think I've seen most of these on other sites though - tsk
tsk. |
| Fleshpage
| Warning! Disgusting, Disturbing Photos. A couple dozen shots of
dead animals
and people. |
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Forensic Pathology | Warning! Disgusting, Disturbing Photos. Pictures
of skull fractures, lacerations, and contusions.
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|
Shock.Com | Warning! Disturbing imagery! Not for children to
see. |
| Show No Mercy |
WARNING!
DO NOT CLICK HERE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF DEATH,
MURDER, DEFORMATION, ETC. Disgusting images, should not be viewed by
children or the easily grossed out. |
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Obituaries
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Online Memorials
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Serial Killers and Murder
| The Black Dahlia
Murders | About Beth, the murders, and the investigation. |
| Internet
Crime Archives | The famous site at Mayhem.Net. Everything you
ever wanted to know about serial killers, cults, fugitives,
cannibalism, and of course, murder. |
|
Killers | Information and links to info on notorious killers like
David
Berkowitz, Elisabeth Bathory, Lizzie Borden, Jeffrey Dahmer, and
others. |
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Serial
Killers | Info on serial killers' nicknames, photos of famous
serial killers, quotes by serial killers, and links to other sites. |
| Serial
Killers.Net | Information on serial killers, forensics, criminal
profiling, articles on serial killers, interview with a profiler. |
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Serial Killers: Following a Trail of Nightmares | Info on aggression
and behavior, motive, characteristics of serial murder, and more. |
| Serial
Murder | An article on the origins and impact of the serial
murder phenomenon. |
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Tasteless Death Humor
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