Interesting People

Skull Stealing and Cemetery Skyscrapers, Interview with Colin Dickey, the Guru of Graveyard

Colin Dickey has written about the history of cemeteries, library bone collections, and the afterlives of the saints. (more…)

12 years ago

Interview with a Vampire Expert

Think you know vampires just because you watch Twilight or True Blood? Think again. (more…)

12 years ago

Sex, Drugs and Quantum Physics – Interview with an expert of near death experiences

Is it really possible to float above your own body? Does consciousness live on after we die? Are all our…

12 years ago

What does George Bush and 9/11 have to do with flying in dreams? A death psychologist explains all

Does being reminded about death lead to hatred, killing and war? Does it make you want to buy a Lexus?…

12 years ago

How to teach devastation? Speaking about the Japanese tsunami with a Japan Society educator

How do you educate people about one of the most horrific disasters of our time? When is something too gruesome…

12 years ago

Funeral director’s forgotten role in the civil rights movement, an interview with Suzanne Smith

Slave getaways were plotted at funeral homes, civil rights leaders were shuttled to safety in hearses, and after writing his…

12 years ago

Interview with the world’s very first funeographer

Priscilla Etienne runs a London-based company called Funeography that takes professional photos at funerals. (more…)

12 years ago

Interview with the country’s oldest funeral officiant, a 93-year-old Freemason named Norman

Norman Miller fought in World War II then Korea and has been leading Freemason funeral services ever since. (more…)

12 years ago

A Victorian death expert explains what Amy Winehouse took from John Keats

Deborah Lutz has written about Gothic villains, Victorian sex rebels and the Cannibal Club; her latest book is on Victorian…

13 years ago

An Iraq War Widow Speaks Out, and Starts a Project

Taryn Davis married the love of her life and was about to finish college, then she got the worst news…

13 years ago