The LA Coroner’s Office released Whitney Houston’s autopsy report, you can find it HERE. It’s a fascinating read, not because it’s scandalous or gross, but because it provides really interesting insight into…
July 2, 2012 | Blog
Yearly Archives: 2012
Teresa Margolles, Muerte Sin Fin
My roommate Jillien Kahn has written her first guest post for the Order. She is halfway through her master’s in art therapy and is on her way to Mexico for the summer…
June 29, 2012 | Blog
Civil War Era Undertaker Re-enactments
As you may know, I have a habit of crudely photoshopping my head onto old Civil War and Victorian era photographs of undertakers. See here: Jon Austin, the general manager at the…
June 27, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician Exploding Caskets
A dirty little secret of the death industry, the exploding sealed casket. It will *blow* your mind. That’s right, I said it. No regrets.
June 26, 2012 | Videos
Ask a Mortician Corpse Poo
And now, the number one most asked question by internet brodudes! Corpse Poo you want, corpse poo you’re gonna get. Note the new single question formatting, hopefully this allows me to do…
Ask a Mortician Ep 6
Oh the wonders of decomposition! My favorite biological process in all the land. We’re taught to fear dead bodies in our culture, but many around the world think the things we do…
June 26, 2012 | Videos
Beyond the Grave: Concepts of Death in Early Modern England
The Order is thrilled to have our first guest post from our friend and death academic from across the pond, Lindsey Fitzharris. She received her PhD in the History of Science, Medicine…
June 22, 2012 | Blog
Corpse Themed Pulp Novels
The pulp mystery fiction novels were all about sex, murder, vice, mystery, and apparently buckets of CORPSES. I was Googling away for a specific, unrelated image and it led me down a…
June 20, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician- Exploding Caskets
This random screenshot from the new Ask a Mortician episode tells me I look like the creepy obsessive girlfriend from THIS video. For the record, I’m totally fine with that. Here’s the…
June 20, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodles — Post Mortem Photography
Post Mortem Photography Post Mortem Photography is the pretty uniquely Victorian practice of photographing the recently deceased. The introduction of the daguerreotype in the mid-1800s meant that families who couldn’t afford fancy…
June 18, 2012 | Blog
Paris: Ghost Town
Writer & Order member Susie Kahlich is living and working in Paris. She is our guide to all things Parisian death. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Paris is a remarkable city: so beautiful, it really does…
June 14, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodles Has Arrived to Combine Joy and Education.
A few weeks ago I featured the art of Landis Blair — see that entry here. Landis does a lot of very intricate pieces but he can also do quirky whimsy-driven pieces…
June 12, 2012 | Blog