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Ukraine War Funerals

How to Bury the Dead When They Are All Around You? A Funerary Snapshot of Ukraine

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, April 21st, 2022

The question is, how to bury the dead when they are all around you?

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Still Fantasizing About Fantasy Coffins

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, February 28th, 2022

If you are an early follower of Digital Dying and tuned in your radio dials to just the right station last week, you would have ...

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Mortality-Minded Board Games For The Holiday Season

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Wed, December 1st, 2021

Thanksgiving has passed, Christmas, Channukah, Kwanzaa and a whole assortment of other Winter Holidays are either already upon us or just around the corner, and ...

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An Interview With Gory Girl, Queen of Spooky Coffins and Haunted Halloween Props

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, October 25th, 2021

Digital Dying has always covered Halloween and its many conventions and customs. After all, spookiness is at the core of Halloween, and spookiness is typically ...

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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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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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In Honor of Embalming – Rock Star Louisiana Funeral Director Courtney Baloney Defends the Corpse

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Fri, February 19th, 2021

“Prior to Covid, would you attend a wedding ceremony without the bride and groom? No. Well then why would you attend a funeral service without ...

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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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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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What’s the Best Way to Face Death? Now There’s A Zoom Class For That.

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Tue, August 18th, 2020

“If we woke up each morning, knowing we only had a year to live what would change? How would we greet the day, our partner, ...

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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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Welcome to the Age of the Drive-Thru Funeral—Is It Here To Stay?

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, June 1st, 2020

As the United States moves into its fourth month of quarantine mode, Americans have gotten accustomed to drive-thru medical checkups, and drive-thru grocery pickups, and ...

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