Jessica O’Neill is a writer living in Kathmandu, Nepal. This piece first appeared on her blog Madness & Beauty. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Last night I was less than 100 metres from a massive explosion…
May 22, 2013 | Blog
Yearly Archives: 2013
Thanks to You, John Wilkes Booth
Caleb Wilde is a sixth-generation licensed funeral director and embalmer in Pennsylvania. You wouldn’t think we’d get along, what with all my wacky first-generation West Coast alternative funeral ideas. But Caleb is…
May 1, 2013 | Blog
YouTube Closed Captioning is the Best Thing to Happen
So here’s a thing: Push the little “CC” closed captioning button at the bottom of any YouTube video and hilarity ensues. WHY, WHY YouTube? I mean, closed captioning, yes, obviously important. But…
April 30, 2013 | Blog
Ask a Mortician: Am I Reacting Properly to the Bombings in Boston?
Lauren is a psychology major at Boston University. She was a runner in this year’s Boston Marathon, only half a mile away from the finish line when the bombings took place. Her…
April 25, 2013 | Blog
American Funeral Home Revolution #5: How the Other Half Dies
The fifth installment from awesome Austin-based funeral director Sarah Wambold documenting the process of opening her own funeral home. (Catch up: American Funeral Home Revolution #1, #2, #3, #4) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Death darlings — Over the past few…
April 23, 2013 | Blog
New Ask a Mortician! Ghosts and Savannah, GA
I take a trip to Savannah, GA to visit cemeteries and take ghost tours and drink more sweet tea than is right and decent. Makin’ ghost fingers.
April 18, 2013 | Blog
Ask a Mortician Ghosts
I take a trip to Savannah, GA to visit cemeteries and take ghost tours and drink more sweet tea than is right and decent.
April 18, 2013 | Videos
Wanna See a Famous Skull?
Absolutely crazy about our newest guest essay, an investigation into whether or not it is truly comedian Del Close’s skull sitting in the office of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, awaiting its…
April 17, 2013 | Blog
Wanna See a Famous Skull?
I used to think that NPR was a little over-the-top with their fundraising drives, but at least they never offered to show me a dead body if I donated enough cash. Some…
April 17, 2013 | Essays by Contributors
Vandaveer Takes On the Dark, Luscious Murder Ballad “Pretty Polly”
Folk troubadour Vandaveer is a bit of a dark horse, and as might be expected of any folky dark horse, murder ballads are very appealing to him. Vandaveer has an amazing new…
April 15, 2013 | Blog
Buckle Your Shrouds, it’s Death Salon LA!
I am so excited to announce Death Salon, a new yearly gathering of intellectuals, scholars and independent thinkers engaged in the exploration of our shared mortality. This year it will be held…
April 10, 2013 | Blog
Still Life, Still Death
Still lifes are works of art that depict “mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases,…
April 9, 2013 | Blog