This week, New York Magazine featured a story about Elizabeth Meyer, a sassy young funeral planner who happens to be a, “stunning 26-year-old brunette ” with a background in fashion. …the mortuary started her as a receptionist, a role that incl...
July 30, 2011 | Blog
This week, New York Magazine featured a story about Elizabeth Meyer, a sassy young funeral planner who happens to be a, “stunning 26-year-old brunette” with a background in fashion. …the mortuary started her as…
July 30, 2011 | Blog
Kitties!! blackandwtf: 1871 A kitten with eight legs and two tails made by famous taxidermist, Walter Potter.
July 27, 2011 | Blog
Your Mortician has been tutoring a pair of twins for almost a year now. They are a holdover from when I used to be a poor death school student. Here they are kicking it colonial in one of our Ecstasy of Decay films. Hi Ladies! Today we were talk...
July 24, 2011 | Blog
“Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day his wife Alice died of kidney failure. He never spoke publicly about her again.” Life/Death/Romance/Presidents. Sigh.
July 19, 2011 | Blog
This is from a story in the LA Times about a local taxidermist preserving Gaga’s meat dress. The dress wasn’t well preserved, and was rotting when it was delivered to his shop. But this brave soul was like, “they paid me upfront so fuck it.
July 19, 2011 | Blog
Dear Friends, Hark! Changes be afoot at the Order of the Good Death! I have a new tumblr: CLICK ME FOR THE NEW TUMBLR This will allow for your daily injection of…
May 31, 2011 | Blog
Here we speak of the legal woes of one Lindsay Lohan. For those of you not familiar with her current legal battle (understandable, as it is difficult to keep track of her various…
April 28, 2011 | Illustrious Corpses
Go right on ahead and make fun of the Twilight series, like you’re soooo above its childish vampyre love schmaltz. I suppose you’re the type of person that doesn’t enjoy sex &…
April 6, 2011 | Eros & Thanatos
I’m now going to share with you something I hate. I hate when people are REALLY SUPER PROUD of themselves for doing something sort- of- mildly “quirky” with cremated ashes. Now, by…
March 30, 2011 | Experimental Death
This post features the lyrical stylings of Shannon Cwikla, valiant comrade of the Order, who you may know from her portrayal of the grotesque corpse in our most recent Ecstasy of…
March 7, 2011 | Experimental Death
Deathlings, I am despondent to report that after five months and over 20,000 miles of corpse driving, I am no longer a body van driver. The Man took my beloved Mercedes Sprinter…
March 4, 2011 | Illustrious Corpses