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 ...
Category: Funeral Customs
The Day Of The Post-Mortal Avatar Has Arrived—Are You Prepared?
In the 1993 film “My Life” doctors tell Bob Jones, played by Michael Keaton, that he is dying of cancer and has just four months ...
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, ...
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.
