Academics
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Mortuary Websites |
These resources are those specifically for Mortuary Science or might be helpful to students here in Cincinnati.
Associations & Groups
- Association for Death Education and Counseling
- Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice
- Cremation Association of North America
- Funeral and Memorial Information Council
- Funeral Service Foundation
- International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association
- International Order of the Golden Rule
- National Funeral Directors Association
- National Funeral Directors & Morticians Association
- Ohio Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors
- Ohio Cemetery Association
- Ohio Funeral Directors Association
- Ohio Embalmers Association
Blogs
Cemeteries & Gravestones
Funeral Customs & Etiquette
- The Book of Common Prayer
- The Book of the Dead Ancient Egyptian practices and beliefs
- Cultural and Religious Funeral Customs by Selected Independent Funeral Homes
- Day of the Dead Mexican remembrance
- Funeral Customs by Religion, Ethnicity, and Culture Funeralwise
- Funeral Etiquette by Kalmer Memorial Services
- Funeral Etiquette by Funeralwise
- The Funeral Service of the Orthodox Church
- Guidelines for Evaluating and Registering Cemeteries and Burial Places U.S. National Park Service
- Military Honors by Arlington National Cemetery
- Religion and Theology links by the New York Public Library
- Saint George Greek Orthodox Church
- Postmortem Photography by The Burns Archive
- Post Mortem & Memorial Photography by The Thanatos Archive
- Humanist Funerals and Memorials
- The Undertaking by PBS
Libraries & Museums
- Cincinnati Public Library
- Hunterian Museum This Museum includes England’s largest public display of human anatomy.
- Lloyd Library & Museum Cincinnati's world renowned independent research library and exhibit space devoted to bringing science, art and history to life.
- Mercantile Library Cincinnati's gathering place for readers & writers, and have been since 1835.
- Museum of Death
- Mutter Museum America’s finest museum of medical history, the Mütter Museum displays its beautifully preserved collections of anatomical specimens, models, and medical instruments in a 19th-century “cabinet museum” setting.
- The National Museum of Funeral History
- State Library of Ohio
- Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body by the National Library of Medicine
Mythology & Folklore
- The Age of Fable by bartleby
- Aging and Death in Folklore
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Mythology & Folklore links by the New York Public Library
- Orpheus and Eurydice by bartleby
Statistics & Facts
- Actuarial Life Table by the Social Security Administration
- Atlas of United States Mortality by the National Center for Health Statistics
- Cancer Mortality Map by the National Cancer Institute
- Death and Mortality by the National Center for Health Statistics
- Finding Statistics by the Internet Public Library Pathfinders
- Human Mortality Database
- Leading Causes of Death by the National Center for Health Statistics
- Mortality Data by the National Center for Health Statistics
- NFDA Statistics by the National Funeral Directors Association