Justin Nobel

How To Live And Die With 40 Cats? An Interview with a Country Cat Lady

Katrin Hecker of Animalkind lives with lots of cats. We wanted to know more. Justin Nobel visited with Katrin and…

4 years ago

How To Not Die in Your Car on Christmas In A Blizzard

If you live in a cold climate, at some point you are invariably given the wintertime advice that if you…

4 years ago

Welcome To The Age Of The Bicycle Hearse

Bicycles are blazing in cities across the United States, with bike-share programs, bike shops, bicycle-friendly cafes and bicycle-friendly clothing lines…

4 years ago

Is Live Streaming Funerals The Future? An Interview With David Lutterman

Digital Dying recently connected with David Lutterman, the driving force behind One Room, a funeral live streaming service. We wanted…

5 years ago

The Best Cemetery Road Trip List Ever – Fifty Cemeteries Fifty States, Maine to Illinois

Travel along with Justin Nobel as he takes a summer road trip that will inspire you to hit the trail…

5 years ago

Go Visit the National Parks, But Don’t Die In Them

Full-on summer is here at last. This is the time for swimming in lakes, lying on the beach, backyard barbecues,…

5 years ago

Dying to Climb Mount Everest—Again!

Everest is in the news again. As of late last week, 11 climbers had died this season on the storied…

5 years ago

A Garbage Truck Funeral Procession, And Other Great Marches of the Dead

A convoy of garbage trucks marched with a coffin to the grave earlier this month in Springfield, Illinois. (more…)

5 years ago

Murder Where We Pray – The New Zealand Attacks Are Added to a Tragic List of Assaults on Houses of Worship

Over the past ten years, the list of deadly attacks in houses of worship across the U.S. has grown long…

5 years ago

Viral Funeral Videos Take the Stage – From Coffin Rising to Worm Burials

There is another viral funeral video tearing across the internet, and this one is truly special. (more…)

5 years ago

What to Expect on the Funeral Front in 2019, From Digital Dying

While we can't predict the future, we are certain that for the funeral industry, change is on the horizon. As…

5 years ago

The Day Of The Post-Mortal Avatar Has Arrived—Are You Prepared?

In the 1993 film “My Life” doctors tell Bob Jones, played by Michael Keaton, that he is dying of cancer…

5 years ago

Big Industry vs the Little Cemetery

On the north side of Detroit is a unique cemetery. Beth Olem, a historic Jewish cemetery, is located in the…

6 years ago

Drama in the Tombs: Cemetery Theater Takes Center Stage

America is divided. Cremations are up, burials are down, and one group of people appears to be running from cemeteries…

6 years ago