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
The spirits of Deer Island tell the truth of all refugees.
September 14, 2019 | Blog
The Order spoke with Dr. Kami Fletcher, and Dr. Tamara Waraschinski of The Collective For Radical Death Studies, an international, professional organization of death scholars and students, death professionals, and activists who view their work as anti-racism work, and aim to decolonize their fields.
August 22, 2019 | Blog
True crime may seem to be having a moment right now, but illicit tales pulled from real life have long been at the forefront of popular culture.
July 25, 2019 | Blog
Before the Woodlands in Philadelphia was a cemetery, it was a garden. On this stretch of land on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in the late 18th century, botanist and plant…
June 5, 2019 | Blog
Order contributor Aisha Adkins on the value and importance of having a Death Buddy — someone who you can share your curiosity and fears surrounding death with in a safe and relatively matter-of-fact manner.
April 27, 2019 | Blog
The idea of royalty sharing their beds with the shrivelled corpse of a man yanked out of a grave is nothing short of shocking, but it wouldn’t have been an unusual sight in the court of the Spanish Habsburgs.
April 18, 2019 | Blog
These students were brave. The assignments were weird. What happened when author and teacher David Sherman created a class for his students to reinvent their relationship to the dead?
March 26, 2019 | Blog
Dressed all in black, from his dark knee-breeches and long cloak to a three-cornered hat adorned with black crepe streamers, the aanspreker carried one message: someone was dead.
March 19, 2019 | Blog