Heston Blumenthal (best name in the world, btw) is one of those “fancy” English chefs.  He does molecular gastronomy, vacuum seals, and apparently he’s a revolutionary desert bacon connoisseur. “Blumenthal is a… 

September 30, 2011 | Blog

  “A Wisconsin cemetery groundskeeper is charged with prying an expensive Fender Telecaster guitar from the hands of a corpse because he allegedly thought the instrument was too valuable to end up… 

September 29, 2011 | Blog

Back when I was waiting for the Order’s website to be back up and running, I posted these amazing photos from the 70’s of high school students visiting a crematory on the… 

September 28, 2011 | Blog

Oh holy hell what is this about cantaloupes? WASHINGTON — Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in… 

September 28, 2011 | Blog

Mortician’s Note: Sheera Talpaz is the poet laureate of the Order.  She has her MFA in poetry from Michigan, but is made to toil as a teacher for the fecund young minds… 

September 27, 2011 | Blog

New in deathnetworking is Facebook’s introduction of Timeline. The Timeline is in effect the new Facebook ‘profile’. As you would expect, it is a timeline of your status updates and content uploads… 

September 27, 2011 | Blog

This is an English boy band called The Wanted. Here they are singing their broken hearts out in a decayed, dilapidated warehouse.  A place that time has forgotten as it slowly crumbles… 

September 26, 2011 | Blog

We’ve all heard of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) where a small child is found dead in its crib with no apparent cause of death to be found.  But apparently this same phenomenon… 

September 26, 2011 | Blog

I’ve never seen the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  But about a month ago one of the husbands of the housewives, Russell Armstrong, hanged himself with an electrical extension cord in his… 

September 25, 2011 | Blog

Facebook, you need to stop making me so jealous of all these other amazing funeral websites.  No one ever makes that face when visiting my website. 

September 24, 2011 | Blog

This girl checked in a Dachau.  She checked.  in.  at.  Dachau. Thank goodness Facebook has a feature that allows you to check in at concentration camps.  Rudy’s Big Wings, Dodger Stadium, O’Hare… 

September 23, 2011 | Blog

Daily life as a mortician is usually characterized by steady ennui peppered with the occasional what the hell moment.  It’s those what the hell moments that keep one addicted to a job in… 

September 22, 2011 | Blog