Special Features

Bob Greene, our teacher, died on April 10. Below, writers from the School of Journalism volunteered their memories.

These days, with embalming, a casket, transferring the body, a hearse, cosmetology, viewing costs and other items, a funeral can cost between $6,000 to $7,000. A cemetery plot and headstone can cost a few thousand dollars more. But there is a way to beat those costs: a person can donate his or her body to the Stony Brook University Anatomy Department.

One man's review of the past few I-CON conventions.