One of the hardest parts of running ghost tours is being polite to people that I think are nuts. I regularly receive e-mails from people who expect me to confirm that photographs…
June 13, 2013 | Essays by Contributors
Wanna See a Famous Skull?
I used to think that NPR was a little over-the-top with their fundraising drives, but at least they never offered to show me a dead body if I donated enough cash. Some…
April 17, 2013 | Essays by Contributors
The Earthly Remains: Revisiting Ted Bundy
We’re not usually a true crime operation here at the Order of the Good Death, but Sarah Marshall’s original piece on Ted Bundy (and spectacle, evil, and earthly remains) warmed our death…
January 4, 2013 | Essays by Contributors
Dremains
Cole Imperi is the owner of Doth Brands, a creative agency that primarily serves the health, wellness, end-of-life and deathcare professions. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Right now, my godmother, aunt-in-law, and a guy I went…
December 29, 2012 | Essays by Contributors
American Funeral Home Revolution #3: Art & Death Business
The third installment from awesome Austin-based funeral director Sarah Wambold documenting the process of opening her own funeral home. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Hello Funeral Fam — It’s been all back to school around here for the past…
October 13, 2012 | Blog // Essays by Contributors
Sympathy for the tumor, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love cancer
Andy Prendergast is a developmental biologist studying fate choice in neural crest. He lives in Seattle and just published this paper in Development. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Every malefactor, by attacking social rights, becomes…
March 2, 2012 | Essays by Contributors
[My Long Term Relationship With Death]
Lukas McLaughlin is an embalming student at the British Institute of Embalmers and the Irish College of Funeral Directing and Embalming. He contacted me first on Twitter (where you can find him…
February 22, 2012 | Essays // Essays by Contributors
Embalm (“sort of like being in porn”)
Mortician’s note: Sarah Wambold is the thing. THE. THING. I spent a day with her in Austin this month and we are morticianly kindred spirits of the highest order. Sarah shares many…
January 26, 2012 | Essays // Essays by Contributors
Guest Post: How to Send A Viking to Valhalla
Mortician’s Note: Look who’s back, everyone. It’s the near flawless Susie Kahlich, vigilante for all that is creative and primal and borderline illegal in the death world. In other words, my hero. …
January 20, 2012 | Essays // Essays by Contributors
Regarding the Hands
Mortician’s note: This is the first piece from Austin funeral director Sarah Wambold, who I first met via this interview with Thought Catalog, where she proved to be a kindred spirit in…
December 15, 2011 | Essays // Essays by Contributors
Guest Post: In Pursuit of Natural Burial
Mortician’s Note: The following essay was written for The Order of the Good Death by Susie Kahlich (website) an American writer living in France. She contacted me about natural burial and after…
December 6, 2011 | Essays // Essays by Contributors