Word: postmortem
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...about anything as simple as political parties—he points out that the party he identifies with, the African National Congress, was banned at that time. Instead, his work focused on the human beings who were involved in politics. His series of drawings on the postmortem body of Stephen Biko serve as both a mournful elegy—“Elegy” is, in fact, the title of the piece—and an electrifying portrait of a secular martyr. Stopforth’s work is filled with this sort of synthesis—combining beautifully crafted...
Feehan and Hamilton take their subject seriously, but not all do. In Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson, a former model uses her can't-be-killed status to scare the bejesus out of her stepmother, who did a postmortem heist of all her Manolo Blahniks (a shoe brand that pops up in these books a lot; the designer must offer a specter discount). It ends happily for our heroine, although these books are not the kind that necessarily conclude with a wedding. It's probably safer that way, given that for vampires, "till death do us part...
...August 4, the entire board of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), the Chinese oil company that had tried to make history by buying Unocal, the eighth-largest oil company in the U.S., gathered at its Beijing headquarters for a postmortem. Thirty-six hours earlier, the company's CEO, Fu Chengyu, had made it official: after fencing with Chevron, the U.S.-based "super major'' oil company, for the right to buy Unocal and its extensive oil and gas assets in Asia, CNOOC was giving up the fight. The Chinese firm had been spooked both by political opposition...
...bombing that killed the perpetrator; it also includes Metropolitan Police Service officers, forensic pathologists and dental experts, who act much like a tribunal in ruling on identity. Commission members study information provided by friends, relatives, doctors and dentists of the missing, and compare it to their own postmortem findings from victims' bodies, clothing and personal effects. All bodies are photographed, X-rayed and visually examined; some undergo a full autopsy. The most reliable clues to a dead person's identity are known as primary criteria - fingerprints, dental records, DNA or implanted medical devices marked with a serial number. DNA matching...
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN Joan Fontaine in a masterpiece of postmortem passion...