The title of this blog is a reference to the 1982 Burt Reynolds & Dolly Parton movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. I won’t get into the plot , since it…
November 16, 2012 | Blog
The title of this blog is a reference to the 1982 Burt Reynolds & Dolly Parton movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. I won’t get into the plot , since it…
November 16, 2012 | Blog
I announced this morning that there have been seven new members added to the Order of the Good Death. Visit them here on the Order Member Page Lindsey Fitzharris, Megan Rosenbloom,…
November 15, 2012 | Blog
Two years ago, when I got a rare email on the Order of the Good Death account, I was thrilled. Someone wants to talk to ME?! About DEATH?@! A zillion hurrahs! Since…
November 12, 2012 | Blog
Now, sometimes I can just be plum naive about the world. For example, it wouldn’t occur to me that the answer to the question: “Just how bad is traditional burial?” would be…
November 7, 2012 | Blog
November 3rd is the one year anniversary of the Ask a Mortician series! Episode one was released one year ago today. I can’t believe it’s already been a year. Ridiculous. I’m going…
November 3, 2012 | Blog
Morticians become very popular ’round Halloween, for obvious reasons. As such, I decided to take the message into my own hands with an Ask a Mortician on how Halloween turned from Celtic…
November 3, 2012 | Videos
November 3, 2012 | Videos
Here is a short video I did in response to the messages and emails I get from younger people who want to be morticians (or some other delightfully deathy career) but are…
November 3, 2012 | Videos
Gaahhh, it’s so much easier to slap these things up on the facebook or twitter. But I know that some of you exclusively visit the Order website. I should be better. Curses…
November 3, 2012 | Blog
“Ask a Mortician,” Caitlin Doughty’s popular, droll web series, has an agenda: to get us to embrace our mortality By J. B. Staniforth When we think of morticians, we certainly don’t imagine…
November 3, 2012 | Press
Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead, for us gringos) is the best holiday of the year. It has all the food and presents and dressing up that make big…
November 2, 2012 | Blog
Well, this is something I really wish I had thought of. The crude but perfect blend of current pop culture and archaic death theory. I used to watch Maury with my roommate…
November 1, 2012 | Blog