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, ...
Category: Funeral Customs
Heavy.com Explores Jewish Funeral Customs
In the wake of the horrific murder of eleven kind souls at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hills neighborhood of Pittsburgh, we pause ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
People Are Dying, No One Is Crying (Updated)
Several years ago, our Justin Nobel discussed the the way some Middle Eastern cultures hire women to weep and wail at funerals. At the time, ...
The Transgender Cemetery Struggle
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio last year, Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a powerful and inflammatory statement.
Searching for Ghosts in the Bayous Outside New Orleans with John Desantis
John DeSantis is 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 make movies about.
The Mysterious Case of Fumiko Kimura, the Mother Who Drowned Her Children
On January, 29, 1985, 32-year-old Fumiko Kimura waded out into the cold waves off Santa Monica Beach on a deadly mission.
If You Kill 57 Snow Monkeys Do You Go To Heaven?
A few weeks ago news broke that Takagoyama Nature Zoo, located not far from Tokyo on Japan’s main island of Honshu had put to death ...
Louisiana researcher stumbles upon a hidden graveyard of former slaves
In the thick woods not far from Louisiana’s capitol city of Baton Rouge is a crumbling graveyard containing the bodies of individuals who were once ...
Why are Native American cemeteries treated differently?
Sonny Ledford is sharpening his battle axes. “I will tell you a story,” he says.
The National Geographic Article On Death Everyone Can’t Stop Talking About (It’s Weirder Than You Think!)
A woman pulls back a golden curtain and slips inside a room to speak to her husband, “Papa, Papa.”
New York Researchers Will Light British Cemetery With Decomposing Bodies
Imagine a world where your decomposing body produces electricity, in a cemetery.
The Inspiring Life of Alexandra David-Neel, and the Enchanting World of Death She Discovered in Tibet
She first ran away at age five, she wrote an anarchist treatise that was translated into five languages, she has slept on a bed of ...
