There’s so much potential inside what we know as death positive people, but there is a chasm there, between the ways we talk about death in the abstract, and the ways we live inside actual death and grief. We’ve got to start talking about grief in the face of deaths that are not beautiful.
January 18, 2018 | Blog
Below is an excerpt from The Supernatural Cats of Japan, by award winning translator, writer, and scholar of Japanese folklore and ghosts, Zack Davisson.
January 13, 2018 | Blog
Can mourning on Facebook ever feel completely safe? Does any public mourning?
January 6, 2018 | Blog
The Order’s Bess Lovejoy speaks to the artist Laura Anderson Barbata about her tireless quest to right a 153 year old wrong.
December 21, 2017 | Blog
Nuri McBride explores the relationship between putrefaction, belief, and the judgements we place on the smells created by the decomposing human body.
November 30, 2017 | Blog
Allow our own Sarah Chavez to be your psychopomp through the world of the new Pixar film, Coco!
November 25, 2017 | Blog
Our director Sarah Chavez spent Dia de Muertos in her home town of East LA, both appreciating and mourning the struggles of her community.
November 8, 2017 | Blog
The Hungry Ghost Festival or Yu Lan is the time of year when, in Taoist and Buddhist beliefs, the gates to the spirit world are opened and the deceased walk the earth again searching for their living relatives, potentially angry, and definitely hungry.
October 30, 2017 | Blog
Our series Faces of Death showcases the death revolutionaries we are fortunate enough to work with here at The Order. This month meet Landis Blair, the wonderful artist behind the illustrations in From Here to Eternity, and part of the Ask a Mortician team!
October 7, 2017 | Blog
Get ready to explore your mortality through the games, movies, books and shows our contributors are currently consuming. Find new things to read, watch, or play – on your own, or with friends and family of all ages.
September 30, 2017 | Blog
Order of the Good Death writer Louise Hung has been asking: “What Was Your First Death?” This week, actress and activist Joy Nash tells her story.
September 19, 2017 | Blog
We’re back with another installment of our Faces of Death series, and that means it’s time to meet another notable death revolutionary here at The Order; green funeral home owner, Jeff Jorgenson.
August 30, 2017 | Blog