Posts By: caitlin

Oh hello Fortnight Journal

Starting next week I will be featured in Fortnight Journal, an online journal documenting innovative members of the millennial generation in traditional fields.  I qualify because you think, “oh, Mortician, you just… 

December 5, 2011 | Blog

Coffin Shelves Have Stolen My Heart

Of the sweetest perfection, dearest shelving unit, I desire thee!  Nay, require thee! These shelves, rather attractive to begin with, dismantle to become an eco friendly coffin when you die.  A furniture… 

December 5, 2011 | Blog

Deathmobiles.

This is a picture of a pretty gnarly accident I saw this weekend. I was driving behind the grey SUV when it made a left turn directly into the driver’s side of… 

December 2, 2011 | Blog

Ask a Mortician Episode 3

All sorts of exciting things today. I’m up way early-  #FML –  except NOT, because it’s to do an interview on NPR. WHAT?! NPR-U-FOR-REAL?  The show is called Word of Mouth, based… 

November 29, 2011 | Blog

Well now here are some things.

1)  Being featured on German blogs fills me with intense waves of joy.  This is the fourth or fifth one I’ve found so far.  Of course I Google translate them like, immediately. … 

November 27, 2011 | Blog

Subversive Cartoon Mortality

Death theory is always like, “if you show your kids cartoons and they see Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff and then popping up and being fine 3 seconds later it’s… 

November 25, 2011 | Blog

New Deathstination Post has arrived…

…and it’s about Disneyland. In my last Ask a Mortician video I mentioned that I would be a patron at the happiest place on earth. Not on your list of Morbid Travel… 

November 21, 2011 | Blog

Deathstination: Disneyland

Today’s Deathstination:  Disneyland Location:  Anaheim, CA Dispatches from the most magical place on earth! I had never been to Disneyland before this past weekend.  Sadly my mother and father were clearly deficient… 

November 21, 2011 | Blog // Morbid Travel

Say it ain’t so, Cher!

Order of the Good Death facebook member Robert Caron brought this to our attention: Did you ever see the original album art for Cher’s Heart of Stone record? She claimed that she… 

November 21, 2011 | Blog

And Suddenly, Death Seemed Not So Bad

“To an Apache Indian, dreaming of an Owl signified approaching death.” Yeah sure, death by CUTENESS, maybe. Owls are symbols of death in many cultures from the Kikuyu of Kenya to the… 

November 20, 2011 | Blog

Chronophage Memento Mori

In a conversation with a friend, I was reminded of this video. The grasshopper chomps away at time, steady and unchanging.  A memento mori for the stylishly scientific. The Corpus Clock has… 

November 19, 2011 | Blog