The Order’s Caroline Reilly spoke with our two resident death law experts – attorneys Tanya Marsh and Emily Albrecht –  about the good and bad of death in 2019, and what we have to look forward to in the new year. 

January 9, 2020 | Blog

What happened when an impromptu band of all-female funeral arrangers went against a tyrannical government that did not represent them, their dead, or their traditions?  

December 3, 2019 | Blog

We often prefer to look back on death as something inevitable to be mourned rather than confront the responsibilities we have as a community to prevent death, at least when it is preventable. In fact, is it really death that we recoil from or is it rather the process of dying? (cw: child death) 

October 21, 2019 | Blog

Anxiety has always surrounded death, but in the seventeenth-century there was perhaps a new fear – of Nothingness. These writers deployed Ars Moriendi and Memento mori to approach death in a century when consoling truths were drifting away, like smoke from a funeral pyre. 

September 27, 2019 | Blog