Interesting People

Nola Death Tête-à-tête – Pirate’s Alley Artist Nathan Durapau

I was born and raised in Mexico. My parents were missionaries and I spent the first 12 years of my…

9 years ago

Take a cemetery walk with Minda Powers-Douglas

Minda Powers-Douglas is passionate about cemeteries. It was her mother who introduced her to the beauty, history, and art that…

9 years ago

To Live and Die in Nola: Interview with New Orleans’ Most Famous Obituary Writer

John Pope's poignant tributes to the dead reveal the inner world of New Orleans' florid, fiery and often very strange…

9 years ago

Mystery writer Jaden Terrell talks death, murder, and figuring it all out

For crime novelist, Jaden Terrell, writing about death is a way to confront her own fears. The Nashville-based author has…

9 years ago

My Name is Katharine Lowrie and I Talk to Dead People

Katharine Lowrie often introduces herself as someone who talks to dead people. It might be a bit more accurate to…

9 years ago

Piping New Orleans’ Dead into Heaven – Interview with a funeral bagpipe player and hospice musician

New Orleans is a small town, everyone has their favorite local cobbler or po-boy shop and when it comes to…

9 years ago

In a World Where We All Live to 120 – Interview with Dr. Felipe Sierra of the National Institute on Aging

In a world where humans regularly live to 120, retirement might occur at 105. Other people might retire at 65…

9 years ago

Talking about life and death with the President of the National Museum of Funeral History.

The National Museum of Funeral History is one of those places that's filled with unexpected surprises. As we recently found…

9 years ago

The man who discovered Ebola.

In 1976 Peter Piot was a young Scientist working in a research lab in Antwerp. As part of their work,…

10 years ago

Meet the world’s bravest undertakers – Liberia’s Ebola burial squad

Telegraph reporter Colin Freeman explores the work of Liberia's Ebola burial squad and the challenges they face.

10 years ago