Monthly Archives: November 2012

Baking With Ashes: Revisited

As die-hard (that’s right, *DIE*-hard) Ask a Mortician watchers know, in Episode Four I attempted to bake faux cremated remains into a chocolate cake, to test whether or not it was possible… 

November 28, 2012 | Blog

New Ask a Mortician Episode- SCIENCE

Scientific Body Donation– total dystopian creepfest or the modern way to go? That, my friends, is up to you as you choose your own post-mortem adventure!   

November 27, 2012 | Blog

The Best Little Death Exhibit in London

The title of this blog is a reference to the 1982 Burt Reynolds & Dolly Parton movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.  I won’t get into the plot , since it… 

November 16, 2012 | Blog

Order Affiliates

  I announced this morning that there have been seven new members added to the Order of the Good Death. Visit them here on the Order Member Page Lindsey Fitzharris, Megan Rosenbloom,… 

November 15, 2012 | Blog

“Just how bad is traditional burial?”

Now, sometimes I can just be plum naive about the world. For example, it wouldn’t occur to me that the answer to the question: “Just how bad is traditional burial?” would be… 

November 7, 2012 | Blog

Happy Death-iversary!

November 3rd is the one year anniversary of the Ask a Mortician series!  Episode one was released one year ago today. I can’t believe it’s already been a year.  Ridiculous.  I’m going… 

November 3, 2012 | Blog

Ask a Mortician Halloween & Death

Morticians become very popular ’round Halloween, for obvious reasons.  As such, I decided to take the message into my own hands with an Ask a Mortician on how Halloween turned from Celtic… 

November 3, 2012 | Videos

It Gets Better, Morbid Kids!

Here is a short video I did in response to the messages and emails I get from younger people who want to be morticians (or some other delightfully deathy career) but are… 

November 3, 2012 | Videos

Salon Profile

Gaahhh, it’s so much easier to slap these things up on the facebook or twitter.  But I know that some of you exclusively visit the Order website.  I should be better.  Curses… 

November 3, 2012 | Blog