If you’re looking to spread mortality awareness through your apparel, look no further. Your first option is from a Buddhist website, hoping you’ll look toward your impermanence as a living creature. What…
February 27, 2012 | Blog
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Of Modern Mourning & Hair Leaves
As you may know, The Order is very big on the use of hair as a relic and tool of mourning. (See: Ask a Mortician Ep 5 & Hair Essay) Jenine Shereos, unbeknownst…
February 23, 2012 | Blog
[My Long Term Relationship With Death]
Lukas McLaughlin is an embalming student at the British Institute of Embalmers and the Irish College of Funeral Directing and Embalming. He contacted me first on Twitter (where you can find him…
February 22, 2012 | Essays // Essays by Contributors
Dead Bodies Look Like Dead Bodies
Hey guys, Ampersand Gallery, in Portland, is having an exhibition of morgue photography from the 1930s. Oh. Whoops. The exhibition was in 2010. My bad. I’m putting these up anyway because they…
February 21, 2012 | Blog
The Order & the Old Zoo
This past Sunday, the Los Angeles members of the Order of the Good Death visited the abandoned caves and cages and grottoes of the old Griffith Park Zoo. As a side note:…
February 16, 2012 | Blog
In Dead Earnest
IN DEAD EARNEST If I should die before I wake All my bone and sinew take Put them in the compost pile To decompose a little while Sun, rain and worms…
February 15, 2012 | Blog
Green (not Soylent) Death Art
I’m just going to say it — Art surrounding natural burial can be tacky. “End of Life Shamans” who come to your house and burn incense and decorate your cardboard casket with…
February 10, 2012 | Blog
Fortnight Journal: Death & We Three
CLICK HERE for a new piece written for Fortnight Journal.
February 6, 2012 | Blog
Over my Decomposed Body
I am asked quite frequently about the “Body Farm,” the research facility at the University of Tennessee where they study rates of decomposition of the human body. The research helps them determine…
February 5, 2012 | Blog