7 Honest Questions About Death With Caitlin Doughty
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 ...
Category: Tales from the Crypt
Seven Death-themed Museums to Visit in 2014
From a bulletproof hearse for the Pope to an exhibit on how to build a guillotine to the conjoined liver of Chang and Eng, the ...
Five Awesome Funeral Apps
The funeral industry is notably slow on the technology uptake but there are a few interesting funeral-related apps. Find those ashes you scattered long ago, ...
Funeral Boss Frank Stewart Jr. Shares His Secrets on Cemeteries, Cremation and the Meaning of Life
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 ...
Death For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner – An Interview With The Guru Of Cremation
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 ...
Funeral menus old and new: Cup of coffee and sins of the dead
Starbucks has a new market, death. A store recently opened in a funeral home outside Dallas, Texas. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, food is banned in funeral ...
New green burial method mimics recipe of infamous British “Acid Bath Murderer”
Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak has developed a new way to bury human bodies. First, freeze them with liquid nitrogen, then, use mechanical vibrations to shatter them into ...
Are skullmongers next for murderous Baltimore?
Virginia McGhee stepped out to make a phone call while at the funeral of her boyfriend in Baltimore and was shot in the chest. The ...
Building Cities for the dead off the Florida Coast
Off the coast of Key Biscayne, Florida, a city of the dead is rising.
Morticians Draw New Blood: Females
How Caitlin Doughty came to a career in death is unusual.
