What is dead, and when do we really die?
Last month, researchers at Yale University published the astounding results that organs from a pig they had killed by inducing cardiac arrest were still showing ...
Author: Justin Nobel
Digital Dying is written by Justin Nobel, whose stories about science, culture and travel have appeared in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, Audubon, Gourmet.com, Nunatsiaq News, Point Reyes Light and The Smart Set www.justinnobel.com. Comments and ideas can be sent to justinnobel@gmail.com.
Where Do Tombstones Come From, and What Makes a Good One?
Who on earth is scared of some rocks? Well, what if they are haunted rocks. What if they are the remains of a rock quarry ...
The Rise of the Pet Death Psychics, And a New Brand of Death Care
It can be said that Laura Stinchfield represents a new type of deathcare worker.
The Artists Come to Uvalde, to Mourn the Dead with Paint and Music
The artists have come to Uvalde to mourn the dead with paint and music.
How to Bury the Dead When They Are All Around You? A Funerary Snapshot of Ukraine
The question is, how to bury the dead when they are all around you?
Sweet Donna – Remembering The Woman You Love, With A Song
When Donna’s sickness took a turn for the worst, her husband Larry wrote a song.
Welcome Spring! Now Here Are Three Ways to Compost—Your Human Body..
With the beginning of Spring, the time of yard chores has begun. Planting flowers, putting out the lawn furniture, and getting that compost pile going. ...
Still Fantasizing About Fantasy Coffins
If you are an early follower of Digital Dying and tuned in your radio dials to just the right station last week, you would have ...
Dead Alone In A Hotel Room In A Lonely Era
It was just about a year ago that a housekeeper at a Homewood Suites in Brandon, Florida, walked into a room to find the former ...
Can A Cardboard Square Tell You How You’ll Die? – An Interview with Robert Murch, the Master of Ouija
In 1986, Robert Murch was 13 years old and his grandmother snuck him in to see a movie called Witchboard—the experience changed his life.
Mortality-Minded Board Games For The Holiday Season
Thanksgiving has passed, Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa and a whole assortment of other Winter Holidays are either already upon us or just around the corner, and ...
An Interview With Gory Girl, Queen of Spooky Coffins and Haunted Halloween Props
Digital Dying has always covered Halloween and its many conventions and customs. After all, spookiness is at the core of Halloween, and spookiness is typically ...
The Halloween A to Z of Renting A Coffin
The other day I had a drive through a remote region and was scrolling through the radio dial looking for something good when a certain ...
The Many Ways to Die by Climate Change – Hurricane Ida And A World of Compounding Disasters
Climate scientists have been ringing the alarm for years. Bigger storms, more floods, more droughts, more fires. And now it is suddenly seeming all too ...
Temperatures Soar And A New Way Of Dying Emerges—Death By Heat
Another heat dome is building over the Western United States, more records are expected to shatter and unfortunately, there may well be more deaths too.
