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, ...
Category: Life & Death
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.
The Death of Learning – A Visit To One Of The US’s Last Surviving Anatomy And Pathology Museums
In a busy Boston neighborhood of honking delivery trucks, hard-hatted construction men and urban hospitals is the Harvard Medical School’s Francis A. Countway Library of ...
Are Robot Morticians Just Around The Corner?
We now rely on robots to find our way, find our mates, do our most difficult surgery, cook our coffee, go for a jog, and ...
A Precious Story of Stillborn Babies
Digital Dying recently wrote about a southern Louisiana reporter named John Desantis, “the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to ...
Searching for Ghosts in the Bayous Outside New Orleans with John Desantis
John DeSantis is the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to make movies about.
Yes, there really is a market for human bones.
A week or so ago we ran across an article in an industry blog highlighting an interview with a top collector of human bones. Yes, human ...
The Mysterious Case of Fumiko Kimura, the Mother Who Drowned Her Children
On January, 29, 1985, 32-year-old Fumiko Kimura waded out into the cold waves off Santa Monica Beach on a deadly mission.
My Rock n Roll Dad: A Unique Story of Remembrance
The year is 1969. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have recently been assassinated. Riots have swept many large American cities. And now ...
Death on the Campaign Trail – From Trump and Clinton to RFK and Horace Greeley
Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton. It is difficult to remember a presidential battle between candidates who are more disliked than the present two major party nominees. ...
