Thank you to everyone who sent me the New York Times profile of funeral director Doris Amen. Well done correctly identifying a bad bitch. Let me explain. That last time we heard…
November 5, 2011 | Blog
Posts By: caitlin
Meet Me on The Faycebooooo.
For those of you who are not inclined to visit blogs on the regular, but still want the occasional death update, consider friending the Order of the Good Death on facebook. I…
November 4, 2011 | Blog
Is This Real Life? (Death Edition)
Well. Holy Shit. You put out one little self-made genky YouTube video and all of a sudden the death revolution is on! Without being too sincere (I’m not good at interweb sincerity)…
November 4, 2011 | Blog
Ask a Mortician has arrived!
I have made a ridiculous thing upon this day. You got death questions, we got death answers. More Info Here
November 3, 2011 | Blog
Ask a Mortician Ep 1
Oh, the delicious hot mess youtube that is Ask A Mortician. Influenced by Bill Nye the Science Guy and the teen girls making youtube vlogs, it is the ultimate in my PERSONAL…
November 3, 2011 | Videos
Hallows Crafts 4 Morticians
Ah, All Hallows season. ‘Tis the most wonderful time of the year, non? While morticians as a whole do tend to love the darquest of holidays, plastic witches and fog machines and…
November 1, 2011 | Blog
Not a Goddamn Bit of Sense
This is a real shirt for sale on Amazon. Can ANYONE explain the slogan to me? Even sort of? This is a close up of the text. “Like you could do better”…
October 29, 2011 | Blog
The Graveyard Book
I got a text from my roommate telling me to turn on NPR in 10 minutes when they’d be interviewing Neil Gaiman for a children’s book segment. “The graveyard children’s book author”…
October 29, 2011 | Blog
The Cost of a Life
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Space Essay
For some reason this did not cross post on my blog and essays section. It’s an essay on death in SPACE. FIND ME HERE
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Terminal Illness Cuteness
This picture was posted on imgur with the following request: Photoshop Request: This is the photo of my daughter and her best friend who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Can you photoshop…
October 28, 2011 | Blog
Joan Didion, Making Wizened Look Fly.
“I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days, the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the…
October 25, 2011 | Blog