Earlier this month I traveled to Chicago to be on a panel at the Chicago Cultural Center. Surprise surprise guys, it was a panel about death, The Beginners Guide to Dying: Contemporary…
May 30, 2012 | Blog
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Norway’s Islands of UnDecomposed Bodies
I had never heard of the Svalbard Islands of Norway– although they sound like something out of The Golden Compass, amiright? But according to the BBC, there are two really insane things…
May 24, 2012 | Blog
My Morbid Art Crush on Landis Blair
When I was in Chicago for the Cultural Center death lecture event earlier this month, I met a young artist named Landis Blair. He was all: “I like the idea of the…
May 21, 2012 | Blog
Yosemite Cemetery
Megan Curran is a librarian who works with rare books in the history of medicine and finds herself often musing about mortality as a result. She is also an amateurish photographer and…
May 17, 2012 | Blog // Guest Posts
Physicists at Funerals, and Why I Need Them.
Physicists are turning out to be one of the greatest, most sense-making allies in the new way of looking at death. When you advocate for green, natural burials, as I do (for…
May 16, 2012 | Blog
Roadkill (Poem + A Recipe!)
A poem by Order contributor Bethany Pope on the ways in which people on the fringes make use of death. Scroll down for a recipe for roadmeat stew from the fellow featured…
May 10, 2012 | Blog
A Corpse a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Apparently, books on the use of human corpses as medicine are all the rage! Which is wonderful because my Facebook feed told me that duck nails are all the rage. Duck nails…
May 9, 2012 | Blog
News You Can (In No Way) Use
Deathlings, far and near. I will admit that I have been distant the past month. The warm, chummy embraces of mortality you have come to expect have been few and far between.…
May 8, 2012 | Blog
First Buddhist Death Rites
Jenn Park-Mustacchio is a funeral director and embalmer, horror movie nerd, and married mother of two in Haddon Township, New Jersey. She studied anthropology and human biology at the University of Pennsylvania,…
May 4, 2012 | Blog // Guest Posts