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 ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
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 ...
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, family road trips and…dying in ...
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 mountain.
Royal Babies, Royal Blood, Royal Death
Earlier this month the royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave birth to their first child, a baby boy. It was perhaps one of ...
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.
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.
What to Expect on the Funeral Front in 2019, From Digital Dying
A new dawn, a new day, a new year, and it promises to be a stunning one for the funeral industry and all its related ...
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 and has just four months ...
Are you Death Positive? Wait…What is Death Positive?
At Digital Dying we talk a lot about death. It’s certainly not something you can avoid and it’s a topic that has fascinated historians, scientists, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Remembering Dads Gone By
For those of us who have lost our dad, Father’s Day stirs many emotions. The holiday makes us think of happy times, sad times, scary ...
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.
