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Cemeteries

  • 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.

  • Beautiful Death - A LiveJournal community for posting cemetery photographs.

  • The Bone Church - An article on the Bone Church in Czech Republic.

  • The Bone Church - Three pages of photos of the Bone Church at Kostnice.

  • The Bone Church - Kostnice.cz's page.

  • The Bone Church: Kostnice Photographs - Photos include black and white, and color images.

  • The Bone Church - The Washington Post's travel article on the Bone Church at Kutna Hora.

  • California Historic Cemetery Alliance - An organization of cemeteries in California.

  • Cemetery Collection - A page in Russian and English. Lovely photos of Russian cemeteries, and of people visiting them.

  • Cemeteries & Funeral Homes - An exhaustive links list from the tireless, talented Cyndi Howell.

  • Cemeteries - A links list of cemeteries and graveyard pages.

  • Cemeteries in Europe - European cemetery links.

  • Cemeteries of Florida - A large archive of headstone photographs taken in Florida cemeteries.

  • Cemeteries, Graveyards, Burying Grounds - Links to online resources on cemetery history and preservation. Features some links to specific individual cemeteries in the U.S.

  • Cemeteries of Los Angeles - Information on several cemeteries, with very few pictures.

  • Cemeteries - Tom Kincaid's graveyard photos.

  • Cemetery Records Online - A useful site for genealogists.

  • Death by Light, at LiveJournal - A community devoted to death photography.

  • Deathly Decayed, at LiveJournal - A community for people who are interested in photographing the beauty and decay found in graveyards and cemeteries.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Guide to Long Island Historic Burial Places - Cemetery listings and historical information.

  • Leverington Road Cemetery - A cemetery in England.

  • Love for Graveyards - A LiveJournal community.

  • 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 Cemeteries - Pictures and brief info on the Cities of the Dead in New Orleans.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • To Die For! - Cemetery humor. Last words, a gallery, quotes and trivia.

  • 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.

  • Yahoo's Cemetery Page - Links list to cemetery resources.

    Cemetery Photographs

  • Beneath Los Angeles - Cemetery photographs.

    Dead Pools

  • Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool - See this year's deaths, try your hand at accurate prediction, meet Lee and check out the Stiffs.Com shopping area.

  • Celebrity Death Pool - Engage in gruesome speculation about the next celebrity to die, in this first and best Celebrity Death Pool page on the net ever.

  • Dead Right Ghoul Pool - You must register before you can play.

  • Dewey's Death Pool - A well designed page for a dead pool.

  • The Ghoul Pool - Another celebrity death guessing game.

  • The Really Dead Dead Pool - Another death pool. Try your luck.

  • Yahoo's Dead Pools Page - Links list to dead pools.

    Death

  • Adipocere - "Adipocere is a soapy, waxy, and in some instances, cheeselike substance derived from the fat and fatty soft tissues of a deceased person or animal." A page with information on what happens to you after you die.

  • 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.

  • Celebrity Morgue - Read about the deaths of famous people like Marilyn Monroe, Josef Stalin, Selena, Sharon Tate, John F. Kennedy, and more. You also can see pictures of their dead bodies. Warning! This site is not for the squeamish or easily offended.

  • Dead City - Death links, terms of death, poetry about death, and a tombstone photo or two.

  • Death and Dying - Hundreds of articles, written by different people, on the topic.

  • 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.

  • Death News - A commercial site offering images and death related news. See the preview page, or subscribe to get the full version.

  • The Electric Chair.Com - Electric chairs, articles on electrocution, death penalty information.

  • The Epitaph Browser - Alsirat's large list of epitaphs.

  • Find A Death.com - Information on the deaths of famous people.

  • Funeralguy.com - Some celebrity tombstone picks, a casket of the month feature, Dead Celeb of the Month, and more.

  • 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.

  • Last Words - Last words, wills, epitaphs, and obituaries of famous people.

  • 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.

  • Tombstones - Humorous epitaphs.

  • Yahoo's Death Page - Yahoo's links list.

    Funerals and Burials

  • ABC Caskets - Open to the public for direct sales.

  • Cremation Society of Riverside County, California - A commercial site, with an urn showcase.

  • Dead Sleds - New Zealand funeral coach club.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Gearty-Delmore Funeral Chapels - A commercial chapel in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

  • 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.

  • Jewish Funerals, Burials and Mourning - Information on properly preparing the body, mourning, the funeral, cemetery and burial considerations for Jewish people.

  • 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.

  • Mummification - A mummification service business. An image archive, info on modern mummification, how to arrange for yourself or your pet to be mummified.

  • 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.

  • Webcaskets.com - A shop selling caskets, monuments, urns, burial vaults, and other funeral supplies.

  • 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.

  • Valley Hills Funeral Home. - A business located in Yakima, Washington. Links to bereavement resources, and funeral homes on the Net.

  • Carthedral - A heavily modified 1971 Cadillac hearse.

  • The Classic Hearse Register - A hearse club in the UK.

  • Grave Sights Hearse Club - A club in the Midwest with an extensive hearse image gallery.

  • 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.

  • Hearsedriver.com -

  • Heavenly Hearses - A hearse enthusiast's page, with hearse stories and links.

  • LasRyds - A funeral coach club in the MidWest.

  • Morbid Riders Hearse Club - A New England club. Not updated since 2000.

  • Phantom Coaches Hearse Club - Pictures and member bios, a newsletter and message board, an events list, and an archive of original sales material.

  • Professional Car - A large list of links to hearses and their enthusiasts.

  • Professional Car Society - An association promoting the preservation and restoration of professional cars, including hearses, flower cars, limousines and sedan ambulances.

  • Riddle Coach and Hearse - A page on the history of hearse coaches.

  • Sonny's Hearse Page - Hearse links.

  • Specialty Hearse.com - A shop selling hearses and limousines.

    Graphic Depictions of Death and Illness

  • Corpse of the Week - Highly disturbing.

  • Corpsie.com - An E/N site with near daily links to gruesome pics.

  • Deathpics - Gruesome image gallery.

  • Faces of Death - WARNING! Extremely disturbing images!

  • Forensic Pathology - Warning! Disgusting, Disturbing Photos. Pictures of skull fractures, lacerations, and contusions.

  • Ogrish.com - Disgusting and offensive images and multimedia clips of accidents, deaths, and other gross topics.

  • Rotten.Com - Highly Recommended! WARNING! Very Offensive and disgusting images await you here!

  • Show Me Your Wound - Wound and injury pictures.

  • Siklink - Links to disturbing death images.

    Obituaries

  • Caskets on Parade - Obituaries of well known people, not necessarily celebrities.

  • Dead People Server - A list of celebrities who are, or may be, dead. Brief info on why they were famous and when they were born, and possibly what they died from.

  • 4 Obituaries - A links list to obituaries, dead celebrity lists, humorous epitaphs and related sites.

  • GoodBye! - A bimonthly journal of obituaries. Many back issues are available to read too.

  • Internet Obituary Network - Death notices and obituaries of various celebrities. Each has their own page with a biography.

  • Obituaries - Another excellent list of resources from Cyndi's List.

  • Obituaries and Fond Farewells - Tigerx.com's tributes and memorials to dead celebrities.

  • Yahoo's Obituaries Page - A links list to obituary related pages.

    Online Memorials

  • The Healing Forest - Have a tree planted, or display an online memorial.

  • The Virtual Memorial Garden - Another commercial site, with photographs, videos, and testimonials to memorialize loved ones.

  • Virtual Memorials - More online memorials.

  • Wildrose Cemeteries - A virtual cemetery with sections for people, veterans, and pets.

    Serial Killers and Murder

  • The Black Dahlia Murders - About Beth, the murders, and the investigation.

  • Lizzie Borden - Her biography and information on her house.

  • Helter Skelter - A LiveJournal community for people interested in serial killers.

  • 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.

  • Serial Killers - Info on serial killers' nicknames, photos of famous serial killers, quotes by serial killers, and links to other sites.

  • Serial Killer Wasteland - Links to pages about serial killers.

  • Serial Murder - An article on the origins and impact of the serial murder phenomenon.

    Tasteless Death Humor

  • 30 Ways to Be Offensive at a Funeral - A text file with naughty suggestions.

    updated October 15, 2003

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