Child bride Courtney Stodden shares a little death advice with the world on an Australian morning show. When the 51 year old Doug and the 16 year old Courtney were asked what…
October 8, 2011 | Blog
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ASK A MORTICIAN.
Dearest Fiends, Your mortician (seen above in crematory regalia) will be starting a video blog called “Ask a Mortician” which is outlandishly self explanatory. You ask the pertinent death questions searing the…
October 7, 2011 | Blog
How to Make a Cremated Remains Locket
Making a cremated remains locket may seem like a daunting task, but with these easy steps you’ll be wearing dead people bones around your neck in no time! Step 1: Someone has…
October 7, 2011 | Blog
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mortuary
This morning I was driving to the funeral home, as I do every morning, listening to my Latino 96.3 bachata jams and weaving through the residential streets near my apartment. As I…
October 6, 2011 | Blog
The Steve Jobs Reaction Video from Hell
Oh man. Well this girl is awful. There is nothing wrong with public displays of grief. I repeat, NOTHING wrong with public displays of grief. But this is so self serving…
October 6, 2011 | Blog
Skeletoure
This fierce dead bish is working this dress better than any living model, amiright? Skeletoure for Winter 2011. Photo by Richard Avedon
October 6, 2011 | Blog
Steve Jobs Tells It Like It Is
We like Steve Jobs, right? We trust his vision, we trust his wisdom. So let us also trust him on death. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool…
October 5, 2011 | Blog
Maurice Sendak refuses to lie to your child
Maurice “Where the Wild Things Are” Sendak has given some great interviews to The Guardian and The New York Times recently about how our society is watering things down for children. “I…
October 5, 2011 | Blog
“Without Which We Can Live”
Order poet Sheera Talpaz writes on the her father and the death of her favorite poet. WITHOUT WHICH WE CAN LIVE For my father & in memory of…
October 5, 2011 | Blog
Deathstination: The LaBrea Tar Pits
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October 4, 2011 | Blog
Deathstination: The LaBrea Tar Pits
Today’s Deathstination: The LaBrea Tar Pits Location: Los Angeles, CA First Impressions Saturday morning my roommate and I arrived at the LaBrea Tar Pits, which I had never actually been to, despite…
October 4, 2011 | Morbid Travel
Fluorescent Mask Hospice Win
There was a story in the New York Times about a year ago that NO ONE SENT ME. I know a bunch of you read the Times (lookin’ at you, Frankel). So…
October 3, 2011 | Blog