Podcasts
Death in the Afternoon
Death in the Afternoon; a podcast about all things mortal from The Order of the Good Death.
Death in the Afternoon is a podcast written, researched, and developed by Caitlin Doughty, Sarah Chavez, and Louise Hung of The Order of the Good Death. You can read reviews of the show here and here.
Season One and Two of the podcast is currently available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and many other podcast platforms! You can also find transcripts of all episodes, plus extras and behind the scenes info for each episode on the Blog section of our website.
Podcast Series
You know how every day someone asks “how are you?” And even if you’re totally dying inside, you just say “fine,” so everyone can go about their day? This show is the opposite of that. A funny/sad/uncomfortable podcast about talking honestly about our pain, our awkwardness, and our humanness, which is not an actual word.
A podcast that focuses on mourning rituals and customs, and holds space at the intersection of life and death. You can expect topics like reproductive loss, illness, suicide, queer and trans burial, tattoos and conversion status, and state violence.
The podcast that talks with game devs on how they’re using death in their games.
A podcast about chronic illness, disability, healthcare and mortality.
A podcast about law, and the relationship between the living and the dead, hosted by Founding Order member Tanya Marsh.
Podcast Episodes
The Moth
PRX
Radiolab
Freakonomics
The Longest Shortest Time
A Grief Counselor On Talking to Young Children About Death
Latino USA
Always Already Podcast
The Rise of City Charm
A Series of Burial Plot Twists
This American Life
Codeswitch
A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
American Journal of Public Health Podcast
Surveillance and Social Justice: When Dying Really Count
Order Of the Good Death & The Death Positive Movement
Fresh Air with Terri Gross – A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too
The Pulse – From Fears to Fascinations, What Exactly is a Death Salon?
Ted Radio Hour – Rethinking Death
In the Thick – Full Spectrum Of Grief
Unladylike – How to be Positively Morbid
Adam Ruins Everything –Death Acceptance with Caitlin Doughty
Storycorps – For Morbid Anatomy Museum Founder, Spooky Things Are Life’s Work
Ologies – Anthropodermic Biocodicology
NPR Next Generation Radio – Urban Death Project
TED Radio Hour – Is There a Better Way to be Buried?
Fresh Air – Rest in Pieces: The Curious fates of Famous Corpses
NPR Marketplace – Finding Ways to Mourn Online
The Really Big Questions – Death in Seattle
ICYMI Podcast – Someone’s Selling Human Bones On TikTok?