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Do You Trust A Robot Car To Save Your Life?

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, November 7th, 2022

Would you trust a robot with your life? Or perhaps the more appropriate question is, would you trust a robotic car with the ability to ...

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This Special 9/11 Viewing Room Holds Bodies Reduced to Dust, 21 Years On Others Are Still Being Identified

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, September 12th, 2022

The September 11th attacks happened 21 years ago, but many families still wait to see the bodies of the loved ones they lost that day.

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The Halloween A to Z of Renting A Coffin

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Tue, October 19th, 2021

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 ...

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The Many Ways to Die by Climate Change – Hurricane Ida And A World of Compounding Disasters

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, August 30th, 2021

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

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, July 26th, 2021

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.

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Jeff Bezos is Headed to Space – What Happens If He Dies there?

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, June 24th, 2021

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 ...

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Must-See Funerary Films You May Have Missed

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, May 27th, 2021

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 ...

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The Death of Prince Philip, and Other Famous People Who Lived to 99

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, April 14th, 2021

Last Friday, on April 9, 2021, Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, passed away.

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The Louisiana Funeral Director at the Center of Covid-19: An Exclusive Interview With Courtney Baloney

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, December 24th, 2020

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 ...

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Dying To Vote – As Election Day Nears, Some Older Americans Go To Extremes

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, November 2nd, 2020

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 ...

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Coronavirus Challenges – Six Months On, How Are We Remembering the Dead?

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, October 12th, 2020

“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 ...

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Faces of COVID

The Faces of COVID: Honoring those we’ve lost.

By: Funeralwise | Date: Mon, October 5th, 2020

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 ...

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AS THE 2020 HURRICANE SEASON ROARS ON, LET’S NOT FORGET THE STRANGE AND DEADLY STORMS OF 1780

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, August 27th, 2020

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 ...

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Imagining the “Solar Cemetery” – A Talk With Mortician Caitlin Doughty

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, July 9th, 2020

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 ...

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Will coronavirus forever change the American way of death & the meaning of life? – Interview with Morbid Anatomy’s Joanna Ebenstein

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, April 27th, 2020

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 ...

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