“We are the ultimate scavengers of all time. Everything from the coal forests to a large part of the earth’s animal biomass– domestic birds and mammals (and, increasingly, fish)– are cycled directly…
August 13, 2012 | Blog
Yearly Archives: 2012
I Belize in a Thing Called Love
Deathlings! I leave tomorrow for a week in Belize. Since I will be staying in a hut on a lagoon with no electricity, this means zero Internet. Good GOD WHAT WILL I…
August 2, 2012 | Blog
American Funeral Home Revolution #2: Stop Thinking Like a Funeral Director
The second installment (find the first here) from awesome Austin-based funeral director Sarah Wambold documenting the process of opening her own funeral home. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hello funeral fam — My last post was a big…
August 2, 2012 | Blog
Creative Body Disposal at its Finest
Reddit (super interweb content generator) can be kind of hard to process if you’re not someone who uses the site regularly. But there’s a fantastic thread going on now about the strangest…
July 27, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodle — Leakage
Welcome once again to Deathly Doodles, where Landis Blair doodles and then I talk about it in a deathly manner. Which is why we called it Deathly Doodles. Obviously. Today’s subject is…
July 24, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician Skull Mystery
The time has come to get our Nancy Drew big girl pants on, you guys. Your Mortician has been stumped. I got a letter from an Order reader, Priyaa Treu, with the…
July 23, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician- Grief Talk
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…
July 19, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodle- Morgue
Morgue The word morgue has a bizarre history. The initial definition (in French) was morguer– to stare, to have a fixed and questioning gaze. What you were meant to stare at were…
July 13, 2012 | Blog
American Funeral Home Revolution: I’m Opening My Own Funeral Home
Funeral director, Order member and past contributor Sarah Wambold on her decision to OPEN A FUNERAL HOME. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hi Order readers and kindred spirits. My name is Sarah Wambold, an Order Member and…
July 11, 2012 | Blog
Deathstination: Leila’s Hair Museum
Say you happen to be passing through Independence, Missouri this summer and are looking for a combination of hardcore Victorian mourning customs, human hair, and Midewestern kitsch. Well, have I got the…
July 9, 2012 | Blog
Death Tech and Possible Hoverboard Holograms
This is our first guest post from Mike Belsito, Co-Founder of eFuneral (which means he’s THE guy to talk deathtech). I’ve heard from many people that technology really doesn’t have a place in…
July 6, 2012 | Blog
Tibetan Sky Burial and its Whiskey Drinkin’ Practitioner
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, Tibetan Sky Burial is my favorite death ritual. The tearing apart of the dead body and consumption by vultures high in the mountains of…
July 2, 2012 | Blog