Today in things that make my brains slowly leak out my ears, I present:  The citizens of Long Beach. This is Jonathan Polk. Jonathan is a business man attempting to open a… 

March 25, 2013 | Blog

The members of the Order of the Good Death are all magical fairies, spreading sparkling death acceptance dust o’er the children’s eyes at night. Reading that sentence back I realize I’m making… 

March 6, 2013 | Blog

The Tweet Hereafter is a new website with a very simple concept, posting the final tweets of well known people. The founder was interviewed by our friend Jian Ghomeshi (I was on… 

February 26, 2013 | Blog

Because I do so loathe euphemisms and silly death-denying language, I love this piece by the lovely Jen Aitken about the necessity of doing better with your obituary writing. More of her… 

February 21, 2013 | Blog

Order member Barbara Chung recently completed her design thesis on the architecture of funeral homes and the sensory experience. For Chung, the design and architecture of a place of death is not… 

February 19, 2013 | Blog

Growing up in the 1990s, with the Internet floating into my home through the dial-up tubes starting in 10th grade, my only exposure to fatal car accidents was the hyper gruesome pictures… 

February 15, 2013 | Blog

Order member Jeff Jorgenson, natural funeral wunderkind behind Elemental Cremation & Burial in Seattle, once again graces us with some straight talk about working in the funeral industry. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A few of… 

February 12, 2013 | Blog

Sorry guys, my Russian is a little rusty (in that I never spoke it at all). But this story on tombs of the Russian bourgeois seems to be about the way they… 

February 7, 2013 | Blog

Jennifer Park-Mustacchio is a funeral director and embalmer in New Jersey.  She has written for the Order in the past about her first Buddhist funeral service. Here she writes about a recent… 

February 5, 2013 | Blog

I was thrilled to receive this story from Michelle O’Leary-Sherman about her recent trip to Ireland to attend a funeral. Not because it’s a funeral–I’m very sorry that her aunt died so young–but… 

January 31, 2013 | Blog

You guys LOVE totally grotesque things rendered in fluffy yarn form. I’ve seen those “likes” on the Facebook page. Don’t try to lie to me about this. I sought out artist Shanell… 

January 29, 2013 | Blog

I’ll tell ya this, kids, the secret to happiness on a Saturday afternoon is visiting a couple of antique stores and a couple of cemeteries. Of course, that’s why One Direction’s Harry… 

January 24, 2013 | Blog