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 as fast as they can, moving ...
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.
What to Wear In the Afterlife? – Interview TWO With Rock Star Animal Communicator Charles Peden
“I can communicate with insects, and I can communicate with whales,” animal communicator Charles Peden told Digital Dying when we spoke five years ago.
Life in America’s Only Airbnb Cemetery House is Awesome
On Airbnb you can stay in a Mongolian yurt, on the side of a volcano, or in any number of houseboats, but there appears to ...
The Looming Death Of The Small Town American Cemetery
On a back road in the rolling farm country a few hours north of New York City is a picturesque old white church and behind ...
Trapped in a Cave in Thailand – Grief in A Prolonged Disaster
If you have read the news at all lately you’ve heard the harrowing tale of 12 young boys and their soccer coach who are trapped ...
Josh Slocum – Interview With the Funeral Industry’s Number One Critic
These are turbulent and extraordinary times for the funeral industry. Cremations are up, death positive is in, and shooting grandma’s cremation remains out of a ...
Entering the Doorway of Death with Dina Taylor
For hospice aide Dina Taylor death is a doorway. Some people pass through that doorway with grace, others struggle.
The Death of Learning – A Visit To One Of The US’s Last Surviving Anatomy And Pathology Museums
In a busy Boston neighborhood of honking delivery trucks, hard-hatted construction men and urban hospitals is the Harvard Medical School’s Francis A. Countway Library of ...
What’s the definition of death? A case in California has doctors baffled.
“Nailah didn’t understand how Jahi could be dead when her skin was still warm and soft and she occasionally moved her arms, ankles, and hips.”
Are Robot Morticians Just Around The Corner?
We now rely on robots to find our way, find our mates, do our most difficult surgery, cook our coffee, go for a jog, and ...
A Precious Story of Stillborn Babies
Digital Dying recently wrote about a southern Louisiana reporter named John Desantis, “the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to ...
In These Tragic Times, Are There More Half-Staff Flags?
In the frigid lavender dawn, when many of us are still in bed, or clutching our warm coffee cups or huddled around stoves, or in ...
Just What The Heck is Holiday Heart?
The condition was first reported in the early 1970s, though it likely dates back to the invention of the wine goblet, approximately 12,000 years ago.
Elephants Love Their Dead – Is That Why We Love Them?
Do elephants have the power to vote?
Why Do We Vote for Coroners? (And Why Call Them Coroners..?)
Yes, there was an election the other day—though of course you already knew that. Because we live in a time when even races for county ...
