December 20, 2013 | Videos
In Conversation- Mike Zohn
Yearly Archives: 2013
GOOD Magazine
Grave Danger: The Emergence of the Sustainable Death Movement An exclusive from GOOD Magazine, published in the Winter 2013: Human Possibility Issue. Just past the perimeter of Joshua Tree Memorial Park’s manicured…
December 14, 2013 | Press
Deathstination: Kerepesi Cemetery Budapest
When cemetery maven Loren Rhoads asked me what my favorite cemetery was, I had to take a moment, because that’s some Sophie’s Choice s*%t right there. How does a mother chose between…
December 5, 2013 | Morbid Travel
That Time My Roommate Tried to Buy Me Death M&M’s
My roommate is the best, guys. Not only is she a sex therapist, meaning we live in Ye Ol’ Haus of Eros & Thanatos, she also gives a good gift. This Yule-season,…
November 27, 2013 | Blog
Lisa Frank Mixtape. 90s Music, 21st Century Grief.
Meet my friend Zoe Feldman. When Zoe was 27 years old, the woman who had been everything from a significant other, to romantic partner, to friend, died unexpectedly in her sleep. In…
November 22, 2013 | Blog
Is It Legal? Viking Funerals
November 21, 2013 | Videos
In Conversation- Laganja Estranga
November 21, 2013 | Videos
Guest Post: Life Lessons from the Lifeless
Marc Sacks is a biomedical engineer in South Africa. His first piece for the Order is about meeting a room of 80 medical school cadavers.
October 28, 2013 | Blog
DEATH IS FOR EVERYONE (a bit of a rant, really)
Claire has a terminal illness. Today she wrote me an email to say she finds the tone of the Order of the Good Death offensive, because she herself does not find anything…
October 28, 2013 | Blog
Guest Post: From the Front Lines of the Chicago Funeral Home Strike & Lockout
For the past four months, 59 Chicago-area funeral directors and drivers have been locked out of their funeral homes by the corporation that owns them, Texas-based Service Corporation International, or SCI. You…
October 23, 2013 | Blog
Let’s Remember What Real Dead Bodies Look Like
It’s hard to remember what real human bodies look like anymore. Dodai Stewart at Jezebel has a great piece on how boring the bodies of female pop stars are: “Call it Naked…
October 22, 2013 | Blog
Guest Post: Suicide is the Cause of Death, Do You Share?
Jen Aitken is the genius behind the straight-talkin’ obituary website Last Words Obits. We like her style so much here at the Order that this is her second appearance. Check out her first…
October 14, 2013 | Blog