Taphology - A Livejournal community for people fascinated by cemeteries.
Temple of Azrael -
Cemetery photos, a neat archive of pics of various funeral related items,
and old cemetery and funeral related drawings and sketches.
Thanatos.Net - Memento
mori, death masks, an archive of x-ray photos, postcards you can send, and
forums.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Serial
Killers - Info on serial killers' nicknames, photos of famous serial
killers, quotes by serial killers, and links to other sites.
