Anyone who likes, you know… the INTERNET knows that the Ryan Gosling “Hey Girl” meme doesn’t get old. Pictures of Ryan saying sensitive made-up things just continue to be funny after other… 

August 20, 2012 | Blog

A memento is an object that we keep to remind us of the past. Every second, we grow older. Every second, something important to us — a person, a possession, an experience… 

August 15, 2012 | Blog

“We are the ultimate scavengers of all time.  Everything from the coal forests to a large part of the earth’s animal biomass– domestic birds and mammals (and, increasingly, fish)– are cycled directly… 

August 13, 2012 | Blog

Deathlings! I leave tomorrow for a week in Belize. Since I will be staying in a hut on a lagoon with no electricity, this means zero Internet. Good GOD WHAT WILL I… 

August 2, 2012 | Blog

The second installment (find the first here) from awesome Austin-based funeral director Sarah Wambold documenting the process of opening her own funeral home. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hello funeral fam — My last post was a big… 

August 2, 2012 | Blog

Reddit (super interweb content generator) can be kind of hard to process if you’re not someone who uses the site regularly.  But there’s a fantastic thread going on now about the strangest… 

July 27, 2012 | Blog

Welcome once again to Deathly Doodles, where Landis Blair doodles and then I talk about it in a deathly manner. Which is why we called it Deathly Doodles. Obviously. Today’s subject is… 

July 24, 2012 | Blog

The time has come to get our Nancy Drew big girl pants on, you guys. Your Mortician has been stumped. I got a letter from an Order reader, Priyaa Treu, with the… 

July 23, 2012 | Blog

Real Talk.  Grief Talk. Poor deathlings, we’ve come a long way since the Victorian era, where widows wore veils for a designated time and families kept symbols on their front doors so… 

July 19, 2012 | Blog

Morgue The word morgue has a bizarre history.  The initial definition (in French) was morguer– to stare, to have a fixed and questioning gaze.  What you were meant to stare at were… 

July 13, 2012 | Blog

Funeral director, Order member and past contributor Sarah Wambold on her decision to OPEN A FUNERAL HOME. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hi Order readers and kindred spirits. My name is Sarah Wambold, an Order Member and… 

July 11, 2012 | Blog

Say you happen to be passing through Independence, Missouri this summer and are looking for a combination of hardcore Victorian mourning customs, human hair, and Midewestern kitsch. Well, have I got the… 

July 9, 2012 | Blog