April 7, 2019 | Videos
Yearly Archives: 2019
Inventing Farewell: Poetry as a Mortuary Practice
These students were brave. The assignments were weird. What happened when author and teacher David Sherman created a class for his students to reinvent their relationship to the dead?
March 26, 2019 | Blog
The Donner Party: What Really Happened?
March 24, 2019 | Videos
Colonial New York’s Door-to-Door Messenger of Death
Dressed all in black, from his dark knee-breeches and long cloak to a three-cornered hat adorned with black crepe streamers, the aanspreker carried one message: someone was dead.
March 19, 2019 | Blog
Mortuary Makeup for Difficult Bodies
March 4, 2019 | Videos
Reckoning With Our History at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice was created to be a dynamic response to reconciliation in the United States. The memorial allows for dialogue, creating a space for conversation regarding the violence done to Black Americans as a vital way to reckon with our past, present, and future.
February 27, 2019 | Blog
Soldiers in the DEATH REVOLUTION
February 21, 2019 | Videos
What is the Oldest Mummy in the World?
February 21, 2019 | Videos
Creating The Reclamation
Three years ago artist AJ Hawkins set out to create The Reclamation, a stunning series on the stages of decomposition. Here’s a behind the scenes look at her three year journey creating the series, opening a business, and her advice to others considering their own death positive initiatives.
February 12, 2019 | Blog
Trying Out a Hawaiian Eco-Casket
February 5, 2019 | Videos