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Stoneshadows is a non profit (blog) website that offers a look at the preoccupation with the intriguing practices and mystery of death that surrounds cemeteries,headstones and their epitaphs.
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Timothy Juhl
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Email questions to:
stone.shadows@hotmail.com
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stoneshadows.com
by Pam Reagan
Photographers:
Mary Campbell
Timothy Juhl
Pam Reagan
non profit. Copyright©2008 Valid XHTML, CSS
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Dispatches From the Overworld
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Timothy Juhl writes unique perspectives about the fascinating practices of this institution-cemetery. Look for future articles and poetry by Tim Juhl.
CEMETERY
ARTICLE
CULTURE
GALLERY
RESOURCES
COMMENTARY
Dispatches From the Overworld
(ARTICLE SECTION)
Timothy Juhl writes unique perspectives about the fascinating practices of this institution-cemetery. Look for future articles and poetry by Tim Juhl.
INTERRESTING EPITAHS
Well done my child
The cord was cut her soul is free
My trip is ended send my samples home
Kilt by the falling of a barn
Was killed by cars
Go away, I'm asleep
Died suddenly while erecting a flagpole
Soaring with birds roaming the hills
Murderer
Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here
This pain This pain
Let's do it
It is done
Oh that peace may come
Adios to the world
Now it is come
Its all been very interesting
Please put out the light
I am absolutely undone
Wishful thinking
My turn
Hanged
Sleeping now
The cord was cut her soul is free
My trip is ended send my samples home
Kilt by the falling of a barn
Was killed by cars
Go away, I'm asleep
Died suddenly while erecting a flagpole
Soaring with birds roaming the hills
Murderer
Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here
This pain This pain
Let's do it
It is done
Oh that peace may come
Adios to the world
Now it is come
Its all been very interesting
Please put out the light
I am absolutely undone
Wishful thinking
My turn
Hanged
Sleeping now
Cemetery Terms
memento mori
▸ noun: a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality
thanatology
▸ noun: the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)
lachrymosa
▸ adjective: showing sorrow
sarcophagus
▸ noun: a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
cenotaph
▸ noun: a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war
epitaph
▸ noun: an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
crypt
▸ noun: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
niche
▸ noun: a small concavity
obelisk
▸ noun: a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
urn
▸ noun: a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
mausoleum
▸ noun: a large burial chamber, usually above ground
crematorium
▸ noun: a mortuary where corpses are cremated
inter
▸ verb: place in a grave or tomb
sepulcher
▸ noun: a chamber that is used as a grave
placophobia
▸ verb: placophobia is the fear of tombstones
plot
▸ noun: a measured area of land; a lot
pyre
▸ noun: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
reliquary
▸ noun: a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
taphophile
▸ adjective: a person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones
wake
▸ noun: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
vivisepulture
▸ verb: the practice of burying someone alive
vault
▸ noun: a burial chamber (usually underground)
monument
▸ noun: a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
megalith
▸ noun: memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a structure
memorial
▸ noun: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
shrine
▸ noun: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
offering
▸ noun: a small gift or donation or a religious sacrifice
casket
▸ noun: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
exedra
▸ noun: any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form
catacombs
▸ noun: series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past
▸ noun: a reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality
thanatology
▸ noun: the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)
lachrymosa
▸ adjective: showing sorrow
sarcophagus
▸ noun: a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
cenotaph
▸ noun: a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war
epitaph
▸ noun: an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there
crypt
▸ noun: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
niche
▸ noun: a small concavity
obelisk
▸ noun: a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top
urn
▸ noun: a large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
mausoleum
▸ noun: a large burial chamber, usually above ground
crematorium
▸ noun: a mortuary where corpses are cremated
inter
▸ verb: place in a grave or tomb
sepulcher
▸ noun: a chamber that is used as a grave
placophobia
▸ verb: placophobia is the fear of tombstones
plot
▸ noun: a measured area of land; a lot
pyre
▸ noun: wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
reliquary
▸ noun: a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)
taphophile
▸ adjective: a person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones
wake
▸ noun: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
vivisepulture
▸ verb: the practice of burying someone alive
vault
▸ noun: a burial chamber (usually underground)
monument
▸ noun: a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
megalith
▸ noun: memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a structure
memorial
▸ noun: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
shrine
▸ noun: a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
offering
▸ noun: a small gift or donation or a religious sacrifice
casket
▸ noun: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
exedra
▸ noun: any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form
catacombs
▸ noun: series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past
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