Surfing around for stuff over the weekend, I came across an interesting blog called “The Daily Undertaker”, written by an actual funeral director named Patrick McNally from Madison, WI. His posts are all related to death and funerals in some manner, but just from the posts on the front page it seems that his eye scopes a broad range in that subject area, from the practical bits of the funeral business to virtual funerals online to the aptly-named “undertaker ant”.
Of the posts I read, the one I liked the best was this one about visiting a room at the former Oregon State Insane Asylum where the unclaimed cremains of dozens of inmates are kept and cared for. The room, christened the “Library of Dust” by the othert inmates, is the subject of a book of the same name by a photographer named David Maisel (who also took the photo above). On Maisel’s website you can see some of the individual images of the small copper cans that contain the cremains, may of which have corroded or discolored over a period of decades.
Bravo to Patrick for finding this interesting work, and also for his other great posts; I’m looking forward to seeing what else he has to offer.
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