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Reaching Beyond The Veil – An Interview With Theremin Maestro Armen Ra

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, March 24th, 2014

I am in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere and click on a YouTube video.

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7 Questions About Death With Yoga Superstar Sadie Nardini

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, March 10th, 2014

Imagine you are a 13 year-old junior high school student, you don’t feel well so you go to the doctor and are told you have ...

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7 Honest Questions About Death With Caitlin Doughty

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, February 24th, 2014

For her "Ask a Mortician" video series Los Angeles mortician Caitlin Doughty has spoken candidly about topics like cat cremation and whether or not corpses ...

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To Live and Die in LA – Interview With the Guru of Celebrity Death

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Fri, December 13th, 2013

How many people guessed that Paul Walker was going to die this year? The answer, at least as far as the celebrity death pool goes ...

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Death and the Higgs Boson – Talking Mortality with a Physicist

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, December 1st, 2013

For Dr. Mark Kruse, a Duke University physicist specializing in high-energy particle physics, mortality is often on the mind. Not just mortality of the individual, ...

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How Do You Talk to Dead Pets and Saddam Hussein? A Chat With Superstar Animal Communicator Charles Peden

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, August 15th, 2013

Charles Peden is a pet medium, aka animal communicator. He makes his living by communicating with dead pets (and also lost and misbehaving ones). He ...

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Funeral Boss Frank Stewart Jr. Shares His Secrets on Cemeteries, Cremation and the Meaning of Life

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sat, July 13th, 2013

In 1910, Frank Stewart Jr.’s grandfather was deeded a piece of property he couldn’t sell. It was a cemetery, and he decided to keep it ...

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How To Avoid Being Struck By Lightning This Summer – An Interview With Dr. Lightning

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Tue, July 2nd, 2013

During the 1940s lightning killed several hundred people a year in the U.S., in recent years annual lightning fatalities have dropped to below 40 people. ...

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Death For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner – An Interview With The Guru Of Cremation

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, June 27th, 2013

According to the Cremation Association of North America some 42 percent of Americans are now getting cremated, might this mark the beginning of the downfall ...

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One Texas Woman’s Struggle To Open The Country’s First Art Gallery Funeral Home

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Fri, June 21st, 2013

Imagine a funeral home that also served as an art gallery. At a service you might watch the deceased’s favorite movie, or listen to a ...

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Bury Me Under The Wandering Llama – Interview with Australia’s Darkest Fashion Designer, Part II

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, June 2nd, 2013

I went to lift one of the pigs out of the garment, I put my hand under its back and was holding a spinal cord...

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How Do You Dress For Your Own Death? Interview With Australia’s Darkest Designer, Part I

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Mon, May 27th, 2013

A few years ago Pia Interlandi dressed and buried 21 pigs in order to learn more about how garments decompose in the grave.

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How Do You Clean a Skull? – Interview with Son of a Skeleton Tycoon

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sat, March 30th, 2013

Not only is there a company called Skulls Unlimited International, they even have their own museum!

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What do Rasputin’s Penis and Einstein’s Brain Have in Common? Interview with Corpse Expert Bess Lovejoy

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Thu, March 21st, 2013

What do Rasputin’s penis, Shelley’s heart and Einstein’s brain have in common?

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Serial Killer Art And Homemade Guillotines – Interview with the World’s Most Provocative Museum Owners

By: Justin Nobel | Date: Sun, January 13th, 2013

JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.

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