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 ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
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.
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 ...
Jeff Bezos is Headed to Space – What Happens If He Dies there?
Earlier this month, Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon.com, shared with the world that he will be headed into space. While the internet has ...
Must-See Funerary Films You May Have Missed
Oscar season has passed, the pandemic may be nearing an end, and Summer is just around the corner. It seems like a good time to ...
The Death of Prince Philip, and Other Famous People Who Lived to 99
Last Friday, on April 9, 2021, Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, passed away.
The Louisiana Funeral Director at the Center of Covid-19: An Exclusive Interview With Courtney Baloney
Back in April, newspapers reported that in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana the Covid-19 death rate was the highest of any county in America ...
Dying To Vote – As Election Day Nears, Some Older Americans Go To Extremes
The great COVID-19 election is at last upon us and given the hardships and limitations presented by the virus many Americans have to take extra ...
What’s the Best Way to Face Death? Now There’s A Zoom Class For That.
“If we woke up each morning, knowing we only had a year to live what would change? How would we greet the day, our partner, ...
Hart Island Back in the News
With its curious and often dark history, New York City’s Hart Island is no stranger to notoriety. Now it is once again in the news. ...
The Other Coronavirus Death, From Loneliness, Anxiety And A Failure Of the Heart
Yesterday I received a note from a colleague highlighting another aspect of the coronavirus crisis—not only are the nation’s older adults dying from coronavirus, the ...
Coronavirus Sweeps The World, And Even The Funeral Is Transformed
A deadly infectious disease has spread throughout the world, the death toll has started an awful climb that experts tell us is just beginning, and ...
Welcome To The Age Of The Bicycle Hearse
We know that bicycles are blazing in cities across the United States, with bike-share programs, bike shops, bicycle-friendly cafes and bicycle-friendly clothing lines popping up ...
