Welcome to the Age of the Drive-Thru Funeral—Is It Here To Stay?
As the United States moves into its fourth month of quarantine mode, Americans have gotten accustomed to drive-thru medical checkups, and drive-thru grocery pickups, and ...
Category: Life & Death
Hart Island Back in the News
With its curious and often dark history, New York City’s Hart Island is no stranger to notoriety. Now it is once again in the news. ...
The Other Coronavirus Death, From Loneliness, Anxiety And A Failure Of the Heart
Yesterday I received a note from a colleague highlighting another aspect of the coronavirus crisis—not only are the nation’s older adults dying from coronavirus, the ...
Coronavirus Sweeps The World, And Even The Funeral Is Transformed
A deadly infectious disease has spread throughout the world, the death toll has started an awful climb that experts tell us is just beginning, and ...
How To Live And Die With 40 Cats? An Interview with a Country Cat Lady
Where do cats go when they die? Can they come back as other cats? How do you know when to euthanize an animal? Can dogs ...
Royal Babies, Royal Blood, Royal Death
Earlier this month the royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave birth to their first child, a baby boy. It was perhaps one of ...
The Day Of The Post-Mortal Avatar Has Arrived—Are You Prepared?
In the 1993 film “My Life” doctors tell Bob Jones, played by Michael Keaton, that he is dying of cancer and has just four months ...
Are you Death Positive? Wait…What is Death Positive?
At Digital Dying we talk a lot about death. It’s certainly not something you can avoid and it’s a topic that has fascinated historians, scientists, ...
What to Wear In the Afterlife? – Interview TWO With Rock Star Animal Communicator Charles Peden
“I can communicate with insects and I can communicate with whales,” animal communicator Charles Peden told Digital Dying when we spoke five years ago.
The Looming Death Of The Small Town American Cemetery
On a back road in the rolling farm country a few hours north of New York City is a picturesque old white church and behind ...
Trapped in a Cave in Thailand – Grief in A Prolonged Disaster
If you have read the news at all lately you’ve heard the harrowing tale of 12 young boys and their soccer coach who are trapped ...
Josh Slocum – Interview With the Funeral Industry’s Number One Critic
These are turbulent and extraordinary times for the funeral industry. Cremations are up, death positive is in, and shooting grandma’s cremation remains out of a ...
Remembering Dads Gone By
For those of us who have lost our dad, Father’s Day stirs many emotions. The holiday makes us think of happy times, sad times, scary ...
Entering the Doorway of Death with Dina Taylor
For hospice aide Dina Taylor death is a doorway. Some people pass through that doorway with grace, others struggle.
