September 21, 2015 | Videos
Ask a Mortician – Is Embalming Dangerous?
Yearly Archives: 2015
Calendar of Events – Fall 2015
Welcome to our calendar of events for Fall 2015, featuring the best death positive events around the globe!
September 4, 2015 | Blog
Morbid Minute – Skeletons in the Closet
August 31, 2015 | Videos
Deathxpert Opinion: Organ Donation and Home Funerals
Order member Nora Menkin, Managing Funeral Director of the Co-Op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial answers the frequently asked question – can you have a home funeral and donate your organs?
August 31, 2015 | Blog
PLEASE Help Pass the End of Life Option Act
The End of Life Option Act (ABX2-15) would allow terminally ill Californians to request medication to peacefully end their lives and free them from suffering. There are people right now, terminally ill, who cannot wait for this legislative process to drag on. Be a part of this historic moment.
August 18, 2015 | Blog
The Foreskin Wedding Ring of St Catherine
July 30, 2015 | Videos
Hair & Mourning Jewelry
July 19, 2015 | Videos
This Season’s Hottest Trend Is…
June 23, 2015 | Videos
Deathxpert Opinion: How to Move (and Fly) a Body
Welcome to our new, monthly feature, Deathxpert Opinion, where members of the Order will be answering your questions on death logistics, death history, and death culture. First up is our Seattle-based green funeral home owner Jeff Jorgenson on how bodies get around.
June 16, 2015 | Deathxpert Opinion
The Ethics of Body Worlds and Other Public Corpses
June 9, 2015 | Videos
A Shocking Likeness: Photography and Death in the Civil War
It is impossible to think of a time when photos of war and destruction weren’t plastered on the front page of newspapers. Order member Kelly Christian explores just such a time, and how the Civil War and technology came together to change our relationship to the visuals of death.
May 20, 2015 | Blog
Ask a Mortician – Worst Way to Die?
May 12, 2015 | Videos