Death in Popular Culture Archives

Business of death care gets a technology makeover

By: Funeralwise | Date: Mon, August 4th, 2014

4 August 2014 Last updated at 19:17 ET Business of death care gets a technology makeover By Nicholas Tufnell Death is big business. With more than half a million people in ...

Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind

By: Funeralwise | Date: Thu, July 24th, 2014

Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind By NEAL CHARNOFF, VPR News It’s natural that people, for the most part, do not like ...

Pet hospice is alive and doing well

By: Funeralwise | Date: Tue, July 22nd, 2014

Pet hospice is alive and doing well More pet owners choose hospice care for ailing pets 07/22/2014 | ConsumerAffairs | By Stacey Cohen Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote the ...

A Land Where Nobody Discusses Death – Interview with a NASCAR Driver

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, May 11th, 2014

I know nothing about NASCAR but when journalist Eric Benson suggested I interview a driver for this blog I agreed it would be fascinating to ...

In a City of Extremes, Who is New Orleans Most ‘Extremely Embalmed’ Corpse?

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, May 4th, 2014

This weekend in New Orleans was Jazz Fest and we know about jazz funerals, but what about 'extreme embalming' funerals?

Death on the Streets of New Orleans, With A Man Walking Four Cute Dogs

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, April 16th, 2014

I found Blaine Dorr walking in the sunshine on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans with a bright blue sweatshirt and four ...

Reaching Beyond The Veil – An Interview With Theremin Maestro Armen Ra

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, March 24th, 2014

I am in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere and click on a YouTube video.

7 Honest Questions About Death With Caitlin Doughty

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, February 24th, 2014

For her "Ask a Mortician" video series Los Angeles mortician Caitlin Doughty has spoken candidly about topics like cat cremation and whether or not corpses ...

The Act of Killing, and the 3 Most Frightening and Surreal Best Documentary Oscars From Years Past

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, January 23rd, 2014

The Oscars are coming up and few who saw the film will likely be surprised that The Act of Killing has been nominated for Best ...

Five Things I Learned From A Book On Child Reincarnation

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sat, January 18th, 2014

A boy in western Louisiana believes he’s the reincarnation of a pilot shot down over Iwo Jima in World War II, an infant who died ...

Extreme Cold and the Perplexing Case of Paradoxical Undressing

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Tue, January 7th, 2014

Here in New Orleans temperatures bottomed out at 23°F this morning, sure that seems like nothing if you live in Minnesota, where temps bottomed out ...