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 ...
Category: Funeral Customs
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 ...
Justin Nobel on Death–the Podcast
Digital Dying writer Justin Nobel is normally reporting on the news, not the subject of it. Recently, however, Justin had the tables turned on him ...
As Winter Ends, Slavic School Kids Welcome the Drowning of Marzanna
Her name alone means death, and every year, as winter winds down and springs looms on the horizon, in certain parts of the Czech Republic, ...
Weekly News 1/11/2016: Saying goodbye to David Bowie
Weekly news roundup: Saying goodbye to David Bowie On Monday, January 10th we said goodbye to music icon David Bowie. His death meant differing things to ...
Weekly News 12/28/2015: Fake funerals and more.
From fake funerals to tests that tell you when you'll die, this week's news had it all. We also saw the touching story of a ...
Christmas and Death in North Korea
This year, Christmas again arrives in the middle of a religious storm. Islam has been pitted against Christianity, with flashpoints in Africa, Syria, and other ...
Weekly News 12/21/15: The transgender funeral struggle.
New on the blog this week: The transgender funeral struggle. The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death: Earlier this ...
The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death
A woman had died, and Reverend Ginny Wheeler faced a dilemma. Wheeler, of the Community United Methodist Church, in Huntington Beach, California was conducting the ...
Funeral music sets the tone and honors the deceased.
Thinking back on the funerals I have attended, what often comes to mind is the funeral music. For me, one service, in particular, stands out. ...
Searching for an Inuit Afterlife: Nursing Homes Come to the Arctic, and a Way of Death Changes
Seven miles. That’s how far downstream the Mississippi River carried my grandfather when he swam across at Baton Rouge. The year must have been about ...
A Will for the Woods: A Documentary About Honoring Death and the Earth
Update: A Will for the Woods is now available for online streaming through PBS.org. Click here to go to the video site.
