Posts By: caitlin

From “Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II”, by Anna Reid

The point at which an entire family was doomed was when its last mobile member became too weak to queue for rations.  Heads of households — usually mothers — were thus faced with a heartbreaking dilemma: whether to eat more food themselves, so as to stay on their feet, or whether to give more to the family’s sickest member — usually a grandparent or child — and risk the lives of all.  For this reason… The Russian language makes the morally vital distinction between trupoyedstvo — ‘corpse-eating’ — and lyudoyedstvo — ‘person-eating’, or murder for cannibalism. 

September 6, 2011 | Blog

Gifs from Doctors

I received two animated .gifs in my email this week from two dear friends who happen to be doctors.  Is there a something to this?  Perhaps doctors, due to their extensive schooling, are at a higher level of internet technology.  Hence the .gifs, no... 

September 5, 2011 | Blog

There’s always stories about celebrity ash smoking or ash…

There’s always stories about celebrity ash smoking or ash snorting or ash eating.  It seems to go with the fame, somehow.  Usually I find it kind of crude, but I’m a big fan of this just released video about smoking postmortem Tupac. FYI, Pac loved “chicken and the BEACH.” "Yeah, it’s definitely true. I think it was the night of, we had a little memorial for him, with his mom, his family and s*it," Young Noble said. "And we hit the beach, do a lot of s*it he liked on the beach. Some weed, some chicken wings, he loved orange soda and all that kind of s*it. Pac loved that kind of s*it, so we were giving him our own farewell that night. That night, I forget which one of us came up with that s*it." "I came up with that s*it, if you listen to ‘Black Jesus’ he says last wishes, n*ggas smoke my ashes, so that was a request that he had. Now whether how serious he was about it, we took the s*it serious," E.D.I. added in. 

August 30, 2011 | Blog

On the Fear of Death

“Consciously or unconsciously, with acceptance or denial, every day you move one day nearer to your death. Is today a good day to die? ” -Susun Weed 

August 28, 2011 | Mission

Home Death Care

“The elaborate expensive display of an open casket with all the makeup in the slumber room enforces the belief that the person is only asleep and in my personal opinion would only help prolong the state of denial.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross 

August 23, 2011 | Mission