Day of the Dead Takes on the World
The day after Halloween, and the day after that, is Day of the Dead, and the ancient festival, to use a modern word, is trending.
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Life in America’s Only Airbnb Cemetery House is Awesome
On Airbnb you can stay in a Mongolian yurt, on the side of a volcano, or in any number of houseboats, but there appears to ...
“The Deathbed Poet” – How One Man Makes Poems of Life’s Last Hours
Michael Gaspeny knows secrets. He knows lives. He knows what makes people smile, and what makes them sin. He knows what makes people tick, and ...
As I Lay Dying…Some Awful Relative Stole My Home!
Could an awful relative steal your home? It's more common than you think. Here is an awful story I heard recently.
TED Talks about death and dying can inspire us to plan for the inevitable.
Death and dying are not topics that most of us are particularly fond of thinking about. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. In fact, not ...
Weekly News: Green burials, mushroom suits, and special people in the industry.
Green burials and the environment dominated this week's news--from overall considerations in how in ground burial impacts the environment to a burial suit that sprouts ...
Weekly News 12/21/15: The transgender funeral struggle.
New on the blog this week: The transgender funeral struggle. The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death: Earlier this ...
How Much Death is Too Much Death? A Visit to New Orleans’ Newly Opened Museum of Death
Speaking from behind the welcome counter, on which sits a tall jar of teeth, a sheep skull and a photo of a dismembered human being ...
New Orleans Death Talk: Decatur Street Artist Blue Fletcher
Blue Fletcher, Decatur Street Artist, French Quarter "My name is Blue. I think about death constantly. My husband died last November and we’re coming up on ...
Nola Death Tête-à-tête – Pirate’s Alley Artist Nathan Durapau
Nathan Durapau, 24, Pirate's Alley artist. "I was born and raised in Mexico. My parents were missionaries and I spent the first 12 years of my ...
Visiting Congressional Cemetery is a walk through history.
In an essay that was recently published on Narratively (The Silence that Whistles Through the Tombstones), author Christopher Haugh describes his personal exploration of Washington, DC's ...
Not who done it but who is it: Learn to be a forensic scientist for free.
People have been fascinated with crime solving as entertainment since before the introduction of Sherlock Holmes in the late 1800s, but the famous fictional detective’s ...
Weekly News 8/7/2015: Death midwives, funeral planning
In this week's news we learned about the growing trend in the use of death midwives. Top headlines also covered funeral planning and health care ...
Weekly News 7/31/2015: Louisiana theater shooting victims laid to rest
This week we said goodbye to the two women who lost their lives in the Louisiana theater shooting. We also learned of a German woman ...
Cemeteries for Movie Lovers: check out these 10 hot spots.
Looking for a destination for your next vacation? How about a trip to one of these star-studded cemeteries? We've highlighted 10 cemeteries for movie lovers ...
