The Tweet Hereafter is a new website with a very simple concept, posting the final tweets of well known people. The founder was interviewed by our friend Jian Ghomeshi (I was on…
February 26, 2013 | Blog
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Fighting with Angels: Why Language is Essential in Obituary Writing
Because I do so loathe euphemisms and silly death-denying language, I love this piece by the lovely Jen Aitken about the necessity of doing better with your obituary writing. More of her…
February 21, 2013 | Blog
The Sights & Smells of Funeral Home Design
Order member Barbara Chung recently completed her design thesis on the architecture of funeral homes and the sensory experience. For Chung, the design and architecture of a place of death is not…
February 19, 2013 | Blog
Traffic Accident Photos From 1951 Are Art
Growing up in the 1990s, with the Internet floating into my home through the dial-up tubes starting in 10th grade, my only exposure to fatal car accidents was the hyper gruesome pictures…
February 15, 2013 | Blog
Corporate Funeral Homes–Soul Sucking Monsters or Nice Work If You Can Get It?
Order member Jeff Jorgenson, natural funeral wunderkind behind Elemental Cremation & Burial in Seattle, once again graces us with some straight talk about working in the funeral industry. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A few of…
February 12, 2013 | Blog
Tombs of the Russian Bourgeois Give Dapper Weirdness
Sorry guys, my Russian is a little rusty (in that I never spoke it at all). But this story on tombs of the Russian bourgeois seems to be about the way they…
February 7, 2013 | Blog
This is Michelle Amber Johnson.
Jennifer Park-Mustacchio is a funeral director and embalmer in New Jersey. She has written for the Order in the past about her first Buddhist funeral service. Here she writes about a recent…
February 5, 2013 | Blog