Real Talk. Grief Talk. Poor deathlings, we’ve come a long way since the Victorian era, where widows wore veils for a designated time and families kept symbols on their front doors so…
September 30, 2012 | Videos
Ask a Mortician Grief Talk
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Ask a Mortician Liquefying Bodies
The new Ask a Mortician has arrived, death fiends. This episode concerns a brand new method o’ body disposal, alkaline hydrolysis. In the video, I create an alkaline hydrolysis machine from a…
September 30, 2012 | Videos
Transforming Corpses Into Trees
“A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays…
September 26, 2012 | Blog
Steven Spielberg’s Mother Doesn’t Think I Look Like a Mortician
There is a restaurant in Los Angeles called Milky Way. Before you think this is just a shitty Yelp review, there’s a punchline to this. The name comes from its status as…
September 25, 2012 | Blog
We Are All Made of Stars
Carl Sagan once said that we are all “star stuff.” We began deep in the blazing innards of the stars of the ancient universe (note: I’ve been trying to work the phrase…
September 24, 2012 | Blog
A Hearse is a Hearse of Curse of Curse.
The Mysteries of Vernacular video series explains the origin of words through fancy book animations. I don’t know why this doesn’t have a ba-jillion views (I have a very sophisticated understanding of…
September 20, 2012 | Blog
What’s a Corpse Have to Do to Get Naturally Buried ‘Round Here?
Currently reading a book called Corpse. Which is a great name for a book. Second only to simply Death as a say what you mean, mean what you say title. Corpse is…
September 17, 2012 | Blog
Suicide as Afterlife Helper
In Western culture, suicide is almost always associated with failure. The suicidal person can’t manage to come to terms with their life so they “give up.” But what if you’re from a…
September 10, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician — Liquefying Bodies
The new Ask a Mortician has arrived, death fiends. This episode concerns a brand new method o’ body disposal, alkaline hydrolysis. In the video, I create an alkaline hydrolysis machine from a…
September 4, 2012 | Blog