We hope you enjoy our new series, Cabinet of Curiosities, that looks at the objects that have helped us prepare for dying, ritualize death, and mourn the dead. 

March 25, 2018 | Blog

“Sonny was a very ordinary man and his life passed unnoticed by a wider world. But Sonny did have one advantage over most of us; he knew how to die. And he knew how to do that because his fathers and mothers on the island, wake after wake, had shown him how.” 

March 17, 2018 | Blog

Writer and cemetery tour guide, Allison Meier spoke to Anthony Pisciotta, a man who frequently passed by a deteriorating cemetery in his community and decided to take action. 

March 1, 2018 | Blog