For Whom the Bell Tolls - April 2, 2007
This week, we sent our reporters out to learn everything they could about funerals, autopsies, ghosts, and cemeteries–in a word, death–and the people who make a living off of mortality.
Angelica Marin reports live on the reaction of Cal students to the Federal Communication Commission’s decision to reaffirm its ban on cell phones in airplanes.
John Peabody talks to a man who runs a multi-million dollar business cleaning up murder scenes.
Anchor Josh Chin interviews a grave plot broker who helps people buy and sell second-hand graves.
Eric Simons reports from the Alameda County morgue on how coroners investigate suspicious deaths.
Sudhin Thanawala brings us the story of pet cemeteries and the lengths people will go to commemorate their beloved companions.
Anchor Zachary Slobig interviews Mark Harris, the author of “Grave Matters.” about the growing practice of green burials.
Abigail Curtis reports on the haunted history of gold country and the entrepreneurship of local business owners who promote the area’s famed ghosts.
Today’s program was produced by Head Grave Digger April Dembosky. The Assistant Bone Crusher was Drew Himmelstein. Our Kitty Cremators were Charla Baer and Amy Jeffries, and our Cemetary Supervisor was Bob Butler.
