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	<title>Digital Dying</title>
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	<description>Digital Dying explores trends in the ritualization of death and dying.</description>
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		<title>In Vietnam grieving was once for years, now it&#039;s on a website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Vietnam, it is customary for grieving families to bring offerings like fake money, cognac and boiled chicken to the graves of their recently departed loved ones but Lac Hong Vien Cemetery puts a new twist on the old tradition: the ability to order these things online and have cemetery workers place the offerings for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2012/02/03/in-vietnam-grieving-was-once-for-years-now-its-on-a-website/</link>
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		<title>Interview with the world&#039;s very first funeographer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Priscilla Etienne runs a London-based company called Funeography that takes professional photos at funerals. She has been featured on the BBC and in Popular Photography. Digital Dying spoke with Priscilla about her beef with funeral directors, why weddings are boring and the reason she's dying to photograph a gypsy funeral. Most people aren't accustomed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2012/01/25/interview-with-the-worlds-very-first-funeographer/</link>
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		<title>Bloody and forgotten journalist deaths, from a female Mexican blogger to an Azerbaijani critical of Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mukarram Khan Atif was number two. The second journalist killed so far in 2012, that is. He was gunned down while praying at a mosque in Shabqadar, in northern Pakistan. A terrorist group called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility. Atif worked for a Pakistani TV channel and served as a stringer for Voice of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2012/01/20/the-bloody-and-forgotten-deaths-of-journalists-from-a-mexican-blogger-to-an-azerbaijani-critical-of-iran/</link>
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		<title>Famous prison deaths, from the mafia to the Manson Family</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diane McCloud was freed from jail earlier this week, but only so she could die. McCloud, 48, was in Nassau County jail for shoplifting more than $3,500 worth of goods from Target. “She's terminal,” said her lawyer. “It's just so she can die easier and pain-free.” McCloud's case was unusual, usually dying prisoners end up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2012/01/14/famous-prison-deaths-from-the-mafia-to-the-manson-family/</link>
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		<title>Interview with the country&#039;s oldest funeral officiant, a 93-year-old Freemason named Norman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Norman Miller fought in World War II then Korea and has been leading Freemason funeral services ever since. He currently lives in El Paso, Texas. Digital Dying spoke with him over the phone about how he got started, what a Freemason funeral is like and after seeing so many deaths, how he keeps going. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2012/01/03/interview-with-the-country%e2%80%99s-oldest-funeral-officiant-a-93-year-old-freemason-named-norman/</link>
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		<title>The weirdest deaths of 2011 – Killed by a cock, crushed by a cow, smashed by a horny black bear..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a strange year for weather and perhaps an even stranger one for dying, here are some of the weirdest deaths of 2011: Stabbed to death at a cockfight - Jose Luis Ochoa was attending an illegal cockfight in Tulare County, California when he was stabbed in the leg by a cock that had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2011/12/31/the-weirdest-deaths-of-2011-%e2%80%93-killed-by-a-cock-crushed-by-a-cow-smashed-by-a-horny-black-bear/</link>
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		<title>The lesser-known famous deaths of late December 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past week saw the death of three very different famous figures: North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il; Czech playwright and president, Vaclav Havel and Cesaria Evora, a musical sensation from the Cape Verde Islands known as the Barefoot Diva, because she never performed in shoes. Of course, many less well known famous people died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2011/12/23/the-unknown-famous-deaths-of-late-december-2011/</link>
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		<title>Have you considered “grief tourism” in your holiday travel plans?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; People come to Paris for the food, the museums and the shops but also for the cemeteries. There is the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, which opened in 1804 and receives more than a million and a half visitors a year, many of them coming to see the grave of legendary rock singer Jim Morrison. At Montparnasse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2011/12/14/have-you-considered-%e2%80%9cgrief-tourism%e2%80%9d-in-your-holiday-travel-plans/</link>
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		<title>Kid&#039;s last wishes: Some feed the homeless, most go to Disney World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“On June 12th 2011, I'm turning 9 and I found out that millions of people don't live to see their 5th birthday,” Rachel Beckwith, of Bellevue, Washington recently wrote on a donation webpage she set up with the aid organization, charity:water. “And why? Because they didn't have access to clean, safe water. I'm asking from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2011/12/04/kid%e2%80%99s-last-wishes-some-feed-the-homeless-most-go-to-disney-world/</link>
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		<title>JFK and the 3 most horrible assassinations you&#039;ve never heard of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week marked the 38th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, an event that only grows more epic with time. Several new books address the assassination, including one by horror guru Stephen King, entitled, 11/22/63, about a Maine school teacher who travels back in time in an attempt to stop Lee Harvey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.funeralwise.com/dying/2011/11/28/jfk-and-the-3-most-horrible-assassinations-you%e2%80%99ve-never-heard-of/</link>
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