June 23, 2015 | Videos
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Posts By: caitlin
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
DEATH IS EVERYWHERE- The Secret Burials of London
April 21, 2015 | Videos
Last Meals & Fossilized Poop
April 6, 2015 | Videos
Sex Ghosts, Gilded Mummies, and Jeweled Skeletons with Paul Koudounaris
March 26, 2015 | Videos
Talking To Your Parents About Death
February 24, 2015 | Videos
Caitlin and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Death Negative Vacation
January 29, 2015 | Videos
Ask a Mortician- Human Taxidermy?
January 22, 2015 | Videos
Identifying Bodies at the Morgue is No CSI
Liz Kelly takes us behind the scenes of her job as a grief counselor at the Washington DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
January 15, 2015 | Blog