Yearly Archives: 2012

“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

Salon

“Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality By J. B. Staniforth When we think of morticians, we certainly don’t imagine… 

November 3, 2012 | Press

Dia de los BLOGtos

Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead, for us gringos) is the best holiday of the year.  It has all the food and presents and dressing up that make big… 

November 2, 2012 | Blog

Memento Maury

Well, this is something I really wish I had thought of.  The crude but perfect blend of current pop culture and archaic death theory. I used to watch Maury with my roommate… 

November 1, 2012 | Blog

Ask a Mortician- All Hallows Edition

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… 

October 29, 2012 | Blog

Ghost Bombing

In the grand tradition of All Hallows’ games (looking at you, bobbing for apples) we introduce Ghost Bombing. Materials required: White Sheet Camera We did our ghost bombing at the ol’ cabin… 

October 27, 2012 | Blog