November 18, 2011 | Blog

In honor of the release of Breaking Dawn, here is an essay I wrote this past spring on sex and death in Twilight. HERE It’s fun- if you like teenage mortality driven… 

November 18, 2011 | Blog

The glamorous Nephele, administrator at Goth.net, sent the Order a fantastic email giving the our members darque anagrammed names. I really couldn’t share them with you fast enough- my heart being unable… 

November 16, 2011 | Blog

Please meander over to the Mission section of the website if you have some time. NATURAL BURIAL & EMBRACING DECAY Part of the Order’s mission is to have you accept your eventual… 

November 15, 2011 | Blog

This is a poem from my new friend Bethany Pope, with whom I’ve been emailing back and forth on such topics as “bleach blonde stasis” and “giving birth to death.”  Let’s just… 

November 14, 2011 | Blog

I was on Right This Minute news this morning for Ask a Mortician. Oh look, little me!  They were all very nice and asked great, respectful questions.  Man, people are way better… 

November 14, 2011 | Blog

I want you all to meet Janelle Atkinson. Isn’t she perfectly beautiful? Janelle and I went to Mortuary School together.  We started the program together, suffered through all the same ridiculous classes,… 

November 13, 2011 | Blog

Rebecca Lyon is a projectionist, film connoisseur, and photographer from Chicago.  I also knew her in college.  We weren’t especially close, with the exception of that fateful weekend we spent together at… 

November 10, 2011 | Blog

Lookie here, folks! I tried to take into account peoples’ suggestions that I have more information and less “wwoooo! death flash fun tymez!” But of course we can’t take ALL that out,… 

November 9, 2011 | Blog

Even though I grew up in Hawai’i, where not a damn thing ever changes, I’m a bit of a fetishist for Autumn.  Autumn is, of course, THE premier metaphor for the beautiful,… 

November 7, 2011 | Blog

This is a fantastic video made by National Public Radio about our world’s recent crossover into 7 billion people. If you like Ask a Mortician, you’ll like the clear, concise way this… 

November 6, 2011 | Blog

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