The Meow once again outshines us all with her death moxie.
April 7, 2013 | Videos
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Yearly Archives: 2013
Smithsonian
Death Club for Hipsters Wants to Change the Way You See Dying Image: Keturah Stickann Caitlin Doughty wants you to think differently about death. For example, consider how Americans used to deal…
April 7, 2013 | Press
University of Chicago Magazine
Decomposure By Michael Washburn, AM’02 | University of Chicago Magazine — Mar–Apr/13 Mortician, medievalist, and video sage Caitlin Doughty tries to change the way Americans think about death. Located on Santa Monica Boulevard…
April 7, 2013 | Press
Collector’s Weekly
Dying To Go Retro? This Modern-Day Morticia Gives Death A Makeover By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — March 18th, 2013 Caitlin Doughty gushes about death like it’s her high-school crush. “I don’t just pretend to…
April 7, 2013 | Press
The National Museum of Health and Medicine is Rad
I was in Washington DC this past week for a wedding. The wedding of Order member Will Slocombe, in fact. Mazel tov, young man! I haven’t visited our nation’s capital since I…
April 3, 2013 | Blog
The Beautiful Death of Jenny
I was recently featured in the University of Chicago Magazine. This was a huge honor for me and thrilled my mother to no end, especially since she was fairly sure my medieval…
April 1, 2013 | Blog
NOT IN MY BACKYARD, CREMATORY.
Today in things that make my brains slowly leak out my ears, I present: The citizens of Long Beach. This is Jonathan Polk. Jonathan is a business man attempting to open a…
March 25, 2013 | Blog
Q: How Ya Doin’ Order Member? A: Good, You Know, Bein’ AWESOME
The members of the Order of the Good Death are all magical fairies, spreading sparkling death acceptance dust o’er the children’s eyes at night. Reading that sentence back I realize I’m making…
March 6, 2013 | Blog
The Tweet Hereafter
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
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