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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Coronavirus Challenges – Six Months On, How Are We Remembering the Dead?
“It’s an essential human fear that we don’t want to die alone, and the worst part of it for our family was knowing that he ...
The Faces of COVID: Honoring those we’ve lost.
It's easy to get lost in the numbers we hear about deaths from COVID-19. As the tally keeps growing, we should remember that each statistic ...
AS THE 2020 HURRICANE SEASON ROARS ON, LET’S NOT FORGET THE STRANGE AND DEADLY STORMS OF 1780
Many Americans remember Katrina, Sandy, Andrew, Hugo, but as Hurricane Laura comes ashore we send our thoughts to first responders and the people of the ...
Imagining the “Solar Cemetery” – A Talk With Mortician Caitlin Doughty
The year 2020 has been a year of great change. As we re-imagine many aspects of our society and how best to live on planet ...
Will coronavirus forever change the American way of death & the meaning of life? – Interview with Morbid Anatomy’s Joanna Ebenstein
Why is toilet paper the thing Americans happen to be hoarding? Will coronavirus forever change the American way of death? How is this similar to ...
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 ...
How To Live And Die With 40 Cats? An Interview with a Country Cat Lady
Where do cats go when they die? Can they come back as other cats? How do you know when to euthanize an animal? Can dogs ...
