The Best Cemetery Road Trip List Ever – Fifty Cemeteries Fifty States, Maine to Illinois
As summer peaks and prepares to slide into fall people tend to get that itch for one last carefree adventure, and there is a new ...
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Murder Where We Pray – The New Zealand Attacks Are Added to a Tragic List of Assaults on Houses of Worship
Last week a gunman carried out a horrific premeditated attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand that left fifty people dead ...
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 ...
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.
Trapped in a Cave in Thailand – Grief in A Prolonged Disaster
If you have read the news at all lately you’ve heard the harrowing tale of 12 young boys and their soccer coach who are trapped ...
Josh Slocum – Interview With the Funeral Industry’s Number One Critic
These are turbulent and extraordinary times for the funeral industry. Cremations are up, death positive is in, and shooting grandma’s cremation remains out of a ...
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.
The Death of Learning – A Visit To One Of The US’s Last Surviving Anatomy And Pathology Museums
In a busy Boston neighborhood of honking delivery trucks, hard-hatted construction men and urban hospitals is the Harvard Medical School’s Francis A. Countway Library of ...
What’s the definition of death? A case in California has doctors baffled.
“Nailah didn’t understand how Jahi could be dead when her skin was still warm and soft and she occasionally moved her arms, ankles, and hips.”
Are Robot Morticians Just Around The Corner?
We now rely on robots to find our way, find our mates, do our most difficult surgery, cook our coffee, go for a jog, and ...
A Precious Story of Stillborn Babies
Digital Dying recently wrote about a southern Louisiana reporter named John Desantis, “the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to ...
In These Tragic Times, Are There More Half-Staff Flags?
In the frigid lavender dawn, when many of us are still in bed, or clutching our warm coffee cups or huddled around stoves, or in ...
