This weekend in New Orleans was Jazz Fest and we know about jazz funerals, but what about 'extreme embalming' funerals?…
I found You Who squatting over a row of trash bags on Royal Street, picking through shiny gold and purple…
I found Blaine Dorr walking in the sunshine on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans with a…
There is something sacred about taking a walk, seeing the places others have seen, following in the footsteps of another’s…
I am in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere and click on a YouTube video. (more…)
Imagine you are a 13 year-old junior high school student, you don’t feel well so you go to the doctor…
For her "Ask a Mortician" video series Los Angeles mortician Caitlin Doughty has spoken candidly about topics like cat cremation…
There are two things I will always remember about my grandmother’s death...
The Oscars are coming up, and few who saw the film will likely be surprised that The Act of Killing…
A boy in western Louisiana believes he’s the reincarnation of a pilot shot down over Iwo Jima in World War…
Here in New Orleans temperatures bottomed out at 23°F this morning, sure that seems like nothing if you live in…
From a bulletproof hearse for the Pope to an exhibit on how to build a guillotine to the conjoined liver…
Ah, Christmas! Eggnog, sleigh riding, hams and finding out from relatives who died in the last year. 2013 saw men…
How many people guessed that Paul Walker was going to die this year? The answer, at least as far as…
This holiday season there have already been at least two cases in the news of people “living with corpses”. And…