Writer Louise Hung shares her first experience with death, and how the lessons she learned from it became an important part of her life. In the upcoming months check back with us as Louise interviews others about their first experience with death, in this intimate, sometimes humorous, and insightful series.
April 18, 2017 | Blog
Writer Louise Hung takes us through her neighborhood cemeteries of Hong Kong and describes the springtime ritual of Ching Ming; when graves are cleaned and tended to, but more than that, ancestors are honored and respected.
April 4, 2017 | Blog
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we are launching a new series on the unsung female heroes of death. We start the series today by featuring several death heroes our executive director Sarah Chavez found right in her own backyard.
March 28, 2017 | Blog
Artist David Orr has been traveling to the sites of people’s deaths and photographing the skies above for his series, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. The resulting images function as both portraits of absence and as abstract memorials to the individuals represented. In this piece, David honors the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.
March 25, 2017 | Blog
Throughout Bali, the dead are cremated, but in Trunyan mortality is openly confronted with a visible spectacle of human decay.
March 21, 2017 | Blog
This is the first in a new series that showcases the death revolutionaries we are fortunate enough to work with at the Order. To begin, one of my oldest friends and colleagues in eco-death, the wry and revolutionary Sarah Wambold.
March 14, 2017 | Blog
Writer Louise Hung on the death of her beloved cat, Mosa and his funeral in Japan.
March 5, 2017 | Blog
Welcome to our calendar of events for spring 2017, featuring the best death positive events around the globe!
March 1, 2017 | Blog
A visit to Plot E – final resting place of the the dishonored dead.
February 15, 2017 | Blog
This small purple home in Phoenix is not just one more tasteless stop on the “dark tourism” highway.
February 8, 2017 | Blog
Louise Hung joins the Order team to share morbid delights from all around the world, including this eerie tale of her own grandfather and the walking corpses of China.
February 1, 2017 | Blog // Guest Posts
Jeff Jorgenson, green funeral director and innovator, tells us about the water cremation revolution a’foot in Seattle. Or should I say, a’paw? (It’s for pets.)
January 18, 2017 | Blog