Waxwork artist Sigrid Sarda’s work explores the intersections of sex, death, and mortality. Here, our own Sarah Chavez talks to Sigrid about her new series The Unrequited, which is about loss, grief, and redemption.
May 23, 2018 | Blog
What was so powerful about these Aztec mothers that their corpses had to be guarded from warriors?
May 13, 2018 | Blog
These little stone statues resembling plump-cheeked children belie a mournful purpose.
May 13, 2018 | Blog
It is because of my grave gardener mom that I’ve grown to become a death-positive woman. I’m a woman who considers death a part of life.
April 18, 2018 | Blog
We hope you enjoy our new series, Cabinet of Curiosities, that looks at the objects that have helped us prepare for dying, ritualize death, and mourn the dead.
March 25, 2018 | Blog
“Sonny was a very ordinary man and his life passed unnoticed by a wider world. But Sonny did have one advantage over most of us; he knew how to die. And he knew how to do that because his fathers and mothers on the island, wake after wake, had shown him how.”
March 17, 2018 | Blog
Writer and cemetery tour guide, Allison Meier spoke to Anthony Pisciotta, a man who frequently passed by a deteriorating cemetery in his community and decided to take action.
March 1, 2018 | Blog
Baltimore’s Mount Auburn Cemetery proudly stands as a living memorial of Black history
February 26, 2018 | Blog
Gift-giving in the shadow of death.
February 17, 2018 | Blog
The Year of Action is here, deathlings. **************
February 10, 2018 | Blog
In this preview of Ivan Cenzi’s upcoming book, The Petrifier, we meet Paolo Gorini, a scientist and engineer, devoted to the destiny of the dead.
February 3, 2018 | Blog
Movements are defined by the change they create– what they are. But our founder Caitlin Doughty wants to dispel myths about the term death positive, further defining the movement by what it is not.
January 25, 2018 | Blog