My roommate Jillien Kahn has written her first guest post for the Order. She is halfway through her master’s in art therapy and is on her way to Mexico for the summer…
June 29, 2012 | Blog
Civil War Era Undertaker Re-enactments
As you may know, I have a habit of crudely photoshopping my head onto old Civil War and Victorian era photographs of undertakers. See here: Jon Austin, the general manager at the…
June 27, 2012 | Blog
Beyond the Grave: Concepts of Death in Early Modern England
The Order is thrilled to have our first guest post from our friend and death academic from across the pond, Lindsey Fitzharris. She received her PhD in the History of Science, Medicine…
June 22, 2012 | Blog
Corpse Themed Pulp Novels
The pulp mystery fiction novels were all about sex, murder, vice, mystery, and apparently buckets of CORPSES. I was Googling away for a specific, unrelated image and it led me down a…
June 20, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician- Exploding Caskets
This random screenshot from the new Ask a Mortician episode tells me I look like the creepy obsessive girlfriend from THIS video. For the record, I’m totally fine with that. Here’s the…
June 20, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodles — Post Mortem Photography
Post Mortem Photography Post Mortem Photography is the pretty uniquely Victorian practice of photographing the recently deceased. The introduction of the daguerreotype in the mid-1800s meant that families who couldn’t afford fancy…
June 18, 2012 | Blog
Paris: Ghost Town
Writer & Order member Susie Kahlich is living and working in Paris. She is our guide to all things Parisian death. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Paris is a remarkable city: so beautiful, it really does…
June 14, 2012 | Blog
Deathly Doodles Has Arrived to Combine Joy and Education.
A few weeks ago I featured the art of Landis Blair — see that entry here. Landis does a lot of very intricate pieces but he can also do quirky whimsy-driven pieces…
June 12, 2012 | Blog
Ask a Mortician — Corpse Poo
At long last, I give you the answer to the often asked Corpse Poo question. I even take a shot at explaining why it is you’re all so obsessed with knowing…
June 7, 2012 | Blog
The Future of Ask a Mortician
There comes a time in every young woman’s life when she must decide what to do with her educational death webseries. Well, by “every young woman” I may just mean me. The…
June 1, 2012 | Blog
The Macabre Masterpieces of Richard Harris
Earlier this month I traveled to Chicago to be on a panel at the Chicago Cultural Center. Surprise surprise guys, it was a panel about death, The Beginners Guide to Dying: Contemporary…
May 30, 2012 | Blog
Norway’s Islands of UnDecomposed Bodies
I had never heard of the Svalbard Islands of Norway– although they sound like something out of The Golden Compass, amiright? But according to the BBC, there are two really insane things…
May 24, 2012 | Blog