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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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Coronavirus Sweeps The World, And Even The Funeral Is Transformed

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, March 19th, 2020

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 ...

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Cat Portrait in home of Katrin Hecker

How To Live And Die With 40 Cats? An Interview with a Country Cat Lady

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, January 29th, 2020

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 ...

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How To Not Die in Your Car on Christmas In A Blizzard

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sat, December 21st, 2019

Here is an important holiday story.

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The Best Cemetery Road Trip List Ever – Fifty Cemeteries Fifty States, Maine to Illinois

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Fri, August 23rd, 2019

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

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, March 17th, 2019

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 ...

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What to Expect on the Funeral Front in 2019, From Digital Dying

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, January 2nd, 2019

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 ...

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Big Industry vs the Little Cemetery

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, November 14th, 2018

On the north side of Detroit is a unique cemetery.

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Drama in the Tombs: Cemetery Theater Takes Center Stage

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, October 24th, 2018

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 ...

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What to Wear In the Afterlife? – Interview TWO With Rock Star Animal Communicator Charles Peden

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, October 4th, 2018

“I can communicate with insects, and I can communicate with whales,” animal communicator Charles Peden told Digital Dying when we spoke five years ago.

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Trapped in a Cave in Thailand – Grief in A Prolonged Disaster

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, July 9th, 2018

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 ...

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Josh Slocum – Interview With the Funeral Industry’s Number One Critic

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Fri, June 22nd, 2018

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 ...

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