When your answer to “So, what do you do for a living?” has to do with DEATH, things can get…complicated.
August 16, 2017 | Blog
Yes, I Write About Death: On the Ways People Respond to a “Death Job” and How I Handle It
SPAM and All the Bones in His Body: A Diary of a Death
“I told myself I was just going to Maine to hang out with Sam and my mother-in-law, Karen, but I knew there was more to it. I was going to say goodbye.”
August 9, 2017 | Blog
Faces of Death: Kelly Christian
Here’s the latest installment in our new series, Faces of Death, which showcases the death revolutionaries we are fortunate enough to work with at the Order. Meet writer Kelly Christian, who uses her work as as a tool to bring social history and current events together to facilitate conversations about death.
July 18, 2017 | Blog
Not Just the Funeral: Queen Sugar Puts the African American Burial Tradition on Full Display
Guest contributor Dr. Kami Fletcher elaborates on how OWN series Queen Sugar’s portrayal of a funeral is directly connected to African American culture and African American death ideology.
July 12, 2017 | Blog
My First Death: The Indelible Scent of Chemicals and Baby Powder
Louise Hung talks to Vicky DeMercer about her first experience with death growing up in a small town on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, where death was a part of life.
July 5, 2017 | Blog
Paying My Respects to the Most Loyal Cat in Japan
Order contributor Louise Hung with a few of our favorite things – cats, death folklore, and historic graves.
June 27, 2017 | Blog
American Trailblazers and Mexican Revolutionaries – Great Women in Death History
The Order’s executive director, Sarah Chavez is back with a new installment of her Great Women in Death History series, that includes some firsts in American death history and an unforgettable Soldadera from the Mexican Revolution.
June 20, 2017 | Blog
Calendar of Events – Summer 2017
Welcome to our calendar of events for summer 2017, featuring the best death positive events around the globe AND announcing Caitlin’s From Here to Eternity Book Tour!
June 13, 2017 | Blog
How Close Is Too Close? When Death Affects Real Estate
What happens when your potential neighbors happen to be dead? Contributor Louise Hung looks into the different ways death can affect real estate.
May 24, 2017 | Blog
Pop Goes the Reaper! – May 2017
Introducing our new series on death positivity in pop culture!
May 10, 2017 | Blog
Is There a Doctor Onboard? On Facing Death at 40,000 Feet
Contributor Louise Hung shares her firsthand account of watching an airplane cabin full of people struggle through the fear, panic, anger, frustration, fascination, and/or horror that death might very soon be among them.
May 2, 2017 | Blog
Faces Of Death: Elizabeth Harper
Here’s the second installment in our new series, Faces of Death, that showcases the death revolutionaries we are fortunate enough to work with at the Order. Meet international relic hunter and writer at All the Saints You Should Know, Elizabeth Harper.
April 26, 2017 | Blog