Death and Dying

General

• Death Net
• Yahoo!'s Index of Death and Dying sites
• Dark Side of the Web
• Dead People Server
• An interview with Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Kearl's Guide to Sociological Thanatology

Examples of Eulogies

• The Passing of Gilbert (1836-1911) by H. L. Mencken
• ValuJet Public Eulogy Page
• Margaret Nygard, 1925-1975
• A SON'S EULOGY FOR HIS MOTHER
• K9 "Shadow"
• Full text of Costas' eulogy at Mickey Mantle's funeral

Obituaries

• The Obituary Page
• Obituary Page of Various Newspapers

Art Gallery of Death

• Images of Death and Dying Through the Ages

Hospice

• Directory of Hospice Resources
• Boston Globe--Hospice Series
• ElderCare Web

Statistics

• World Health Organization's Database
• Death Clock
• Population Clock
• USA Population (1900 - 1994)
• USA -- Resident Population--Selected Characteristics and Projections (1790 - 2050)
• This is your Life Table
• World Population Growth From Year 0 To Stabilization
• Total Population for the World: 1950-2050
• World Vital Events Per Time Unit: 1996
• Age and Sex Population Projections -- 1996-2050 (USA)
• Sex and Race Population Projections -- 1996 - 2050 (USA)
• Five-Year Survival Rates by Age and Sex -- 1995 - 2015 (USA)

Legal Issues

• State Of New York Patients' Rights
• Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act

  Death Penalty

  • Links Toward Abolition
  • Executions in the USA in 1996
  • Death Penalty Information--Stats, Legal papers, lots of links
  • Death Penalty Legal Source
  • Yahoo!'s index of Death Penalty sites

  Forensics

  • Forensic Pathology Index
  • Visible Human Cross Sections

  Right to Die

  • Death Net
  • Right to Die--pro-choice
  • The Natural Death Centre--England
  • The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Scotland Newsletter

Funeral Services and Customs

• Notes/essays of an embalmer/death educator
• Brown-Wilbert Vault Co.
• Batesville Casket Company
• Facts for Consumers from the Federal Trade Commission
• Jewish Burial Society
• The National Academy of Mortuary Science
• Various Stages of the Changes in Burial in Ancient Egypt
• Summum Mummification

Burial/Disposal Rituals

• The Page of The Dead (death monuments)
• The 2nd Page of The Dead (death monuments)
• Cemetery directories and more
• Internet Directory of Cemeteries
• History of Cremation
• City of the Silent
• Huron Indian Cemetery
• The World Wide Cemetery
• Post Mortem Page (overview of Cemeteries)
• Highgate Cemetery -- London, England
• African Burial Ground Archeological Project
• The African Burial Ground Memorial
• Lydia Thompson's Notes on a Chinese Tomb
• Royal Cemetery of Ur
• Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
• New Orleans Cemetery Page
• Guided Walking Tour of Melbourne Cemetery
• Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery
• Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise (Looking For Jim Morrison???)

Grief Behavior

• Presidential Tears??????
• Grief Recovery Institute
• Crisis, Grief and Healing--Tom Golden LCSW
• International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement
• Helping families cope--external links
• GriefNet
• WidowNet
• The Virtual Memorial Garden
• Practical Grief Resources
• Children and Grief
• From the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Wills

• Wills on the Web

War and Genocide

• Death Camps -- Auschwitz

Afterlife

• Essay: Life After Death and Rebirth
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead

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