One Texas Woman’s Struggle To Open The Country’s First Art Gallery Funeral Home
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 ...
Category: Interesting People
Bury Me Under The Wandering Llama – Interview with Australia’s Darkest Fashion Designer, Part II
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...
How Do You Dress For Your Own Death? Interview With Australia’s Darkest Designer, Part I
A few years ago Pia Interlandi dressed and buried 21 pigs in order to learn more about how garments decompose in the grave.
How Do You Clean a Skull? – Interview with Son of a Skeleton Tycoon
Not only is there a company called Skulls Unlimited International, they even have their own museum!
What do Rasputin’s Penis and Einstein’s Brain Have in Common? Interview with Corpse Expert Bess Lovejoy
What do Rasputin’s penis, Shelley’s heart and Einstein’s brain have in common?
Serial Killer Art And Homemade Guillotines – Interview with the World’s Most Provocative Museum Owners
JD Healy and Cathee Shultz once built their own guillotine. The couple now runs the Museum of Death, in Los Angeles.
Solving Murders and Sculpting Skulls, Interview with a Forensic Artist
Barbara Anderson has spent more than two decades working as a forensic artist for police departments in California. When a body is found rotted beyond ...
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.
Interview with a Vampire Expert
Think you know vampires just because you watch Twilight or True Blood? Think again.
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 brains and the entire universe ...
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? Did George Bush win reelection ...
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 to show in a museum ...
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 famous letter from the Birmingham ...
Interview with the world’s very first funeographer
Priscilla Etienne runs a London-based company called Funeography that takes professional photos at funerals.
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.
