“Morgellons”, Caitlin McCormack
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about in or related to the Death Industry recently.
This time last year: Links of the Dead {January 2016}
💀 Don’t Let Anyone Tell You You’re Not Allowed To Be Upset About A Celebrity Death Artist works to capture and preserve cadavers 5 places: Where you can’t die The ‘Maternal Bereavement Effect’ Explains Why So Many Parents Die After Their Children Obituaries For Teenage Girls If They Actually Died When They Say They’re Dying How to Create an Iconic Jaguar Hearse “Mirrors With Memories”: Why Did Victorians Take Pictures of Dead People? The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage Mysterious Ancient Egypt ‘pot burials’ stand as metaphor for rebirth in the afterlife On Death, Patriarchy & the Anti-Choice Movement Taking Care Of The Dead At Home, And Other Matters Of Mortality To dig or not to dig? The ethics of exhumation The First Cryonic Preservation Took Place Fifty Years Ago Today The Grieving Need You Most After the Funeral Sometimes Nature is Morbid. That’s Why There’s #BestCarcass How to Eat Like a Gravedigger For the Forgotten African-American Dead This Kid-Friendly Explanation Of Death Will Change How You Think About The World Tracing The Remains: Sabrina Small and Caitlin McCormack at the Mütter Museum Death Without Darkness: A mortician proposes a redesign for the crematory Artist Jaime Erin Johnson explores places where one encounters life & death, growth & decay
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Popular Detective; cover art by Rudolph Belarski, December, 1945
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
This time last year: Links of the Dead {December 2015}
💀What Happens if You Vote and Die Before Election Day? The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains Where You Live May Determine How You Die “Death Librarians” Shed Light on Mortality and Grief Picturing the Dead: Victorian memorial photography takes on new life. How do you tell a child his mother is dying? Rizpah, Guardian of the Dead The Observer’s obituaries of 2016 Coffin It Up: Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins Made With Ashes: Memento Mori For Your Next Dinner Party For Transwomen killed by tOakland fire, struggle for respect continues in death. Speedy shovels shine in Slovakia’s grave-digging contest What The Texas Fetal Remains Ruling Really Means and How You Can Take Action The Next Generation of Death Mask is Freakishly Beautiful Interview with artist Hans Op de Beeck on matters of impermanence and loss through his art and how the reality of death can alter one’s view on life Can creativity beat death? New study suggests creatives worry less about dying Death like you’ve never seen it before | Joanna Ebenstein | TEDxNewYork Death Work: A conversation with doulas Roxanne Baker and Saralee Gallien Memento Moro In Felt: The Art Of Lana Crooks Your Deathbed Playlist Psilocybin: A Journey Beyond the Fear of Death? For 22 Unclaimed Bodies in New York, a Grim Path From Death to Burial The Privilege of a Good Death 4 Foreboding Omens Who Are Trying to Mansplain My Death to Me Meet The Women Who Love Death A Mortician’s Tale: Death Positive Gaming Inside Bolivia’s Skull Festival, Where the Dead Get Diamonds and Sunglasses Mourning Through Horror Movies Death & the Maiden’s 2016 Holiday gift guide
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When I first read about the incredibly wonderful concept of Death Cafe Read more about Death Cafe and and my experiences with them at Haute Macabre this week. today Becky Munich.
Bonus: How to wear your own Death Cafe (or, as I like to think of it “How To Wear An Article About Holding Your Own Death Cafe”). As always, click on the image to be linked to the item details.
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Tristeza by Lizz Lopez
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
This time last year: Links of the Dead {November 2015}
💀 You Can Embalm Dead Bodies In This Funeral Home Video Game These Photos Show How People Are Dying Around The World Imagined Afterlives: Death in Classic Fantasy Evi Numen, Death Doula Patton Oswalt Opens Up About How His Wife Died Scientifically, What’s the Best Way to Die (Without Killing Yourself)? What I learned about dying from those who work in the funeral industry The hidden part of the internet where the grieving find solace by sharing pictures of loved ones “The Art of Dying”, a virtual & augmented reality art show ‘Grief is so overpowering – it consumes you’: The Guardian readers on death and dying Glimpses of the Afterlife in Swoon’s New Installation The Surprising Number of Middle-Aged White Men Who Think About Faking Their Own Deaths Feminists are redefining culture’s broken relationship with mortality Oh, cool. Facebook is saying we’re all dead The corpses that changed my life | Caitlin Doughty | TEDxVienna Immortal prose: how writers deal with death Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century Amber Carvaly on why politics, social justice and the death positive movement are inseparable A Time To Mourn Without a Place to Pray Defying Morbidity: Tales From a Central Pennsylvania Funeral Home. Patricia Lundy talks with her grandmother about what it was like to live so intimately close to the dead.
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At Haute Macabre this week I talk with Evi Numen about her role as a Death Doula.
For the interview, Evi shared some of her exquisite Victorian tintypes, and noted “I’ve been collecting portraits of local Victorians for a while now, mostly in the form of albumen prints (cartes de visite) and tintypes. Most of the people in my collections are anonymous, and forgotten by history. Their portraits have made their way to flea markets and antique shops, no longer in the family album. I wanted to honor them by giving them a new narrative through painting… I think of them as small tributes to the individuals depicted.”
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Full circle by Kristy Patterson
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
💀 Canada legalized assisted suicide, but there aren’t enough doctors to keep up with demand Saving Skin: The public lives of posthumous bodies. The Art of Condolence Dying woman picks road trip over chemotherapy The Privilege of a Good Death A Letter to the Doctors and Nurses Who Cared for My Wife 24 Photos Of Skulls and Skeletons From Different Death Rituals Aid in Dying Movement Advances The 10 Iconic Cemeteries That Made Death Beautiful Lessons on Dying From David Bowie and My Friends Fetus Funerals: The Dystopian New Turn in the Fight Against Abortion Rights Metro Arts Presents DEATHFEST This Explorer’s Corpse Has Been Trapped in Ice for More Than a Century A Performance Where Victorian Mourning Braiding Meets Neuroscience A History of the Infinite: Death & Immortality Strengthen Your Sense of Smell While Contemplating Your Doom
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“Evening Walk” by Kristin Forbes-Mullane, 2016
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
💀 Dhruvi Acharya’s new work explores the journey of reconstructing the self after loss. Little Miss Funeral: Lauren LeRoy reflects on her experiences in a male dominated industry and on why her job is so important. Shopping for the Afterlife in China A Daughter Reflects On Her Mother’s Fight For A Medically-Assisted Death. How Quakers Cope with Death After escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11, Stephen Milller left Wall Street to become a professional obituary writer. What It Feels Like to Die: Science is just beginning to understand the experience of life’s end. The funeral business? Eternally healthy. But finding younger mortuary workers is a challenge. Is 2016 the year of the celebrity death? An update. Morbid Curiosity is a card game about death. Part trivia, part conversation it offers an intriguing and delightfully morbid evening with friends. The Sobering Thing Doctors Do When They Die Life, The Universe And Everything: Five Things I Learnt At A Death Cafe
…and speaking of Death Cafe, I have just facilitated my fourth and final Death Cafe Orlando event. It was a lively, yet bittersweet gathering, but I can’t be too sad, for I have passed the torch to some truly fantastic folks, and in the meantime, I am gearing up to begin Death Cafe Daytona Beach to serve the Volusia County area! Our first event will be in early 2017 and I couldn’t be more excited.
Previous installments:Links of the Dead for August 2016 Links of the Dead for July 2016 Links of the Dead for June 2016 Links of the Dead for May 2016 Links of the Dead for April 2016 Links of the Dead for March 2016 Links of the dead for February 2016 Links of the dead for January 2016 Links of the dead for December 2015 Links of the dead for November 2015 Links of the dead for September 2015 Links of the dead for August 2015
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Sedlec, Nona Limmen
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
💀 I arrived at my friend’s party. A few hours later she died, exactly as planned. This 25-Year-Old Cancer Patient Is Live Blogging His Death Photographer Karen Jerzyk shares her journey onward from her father’s sudden death ‘Right, Before I Die’ LA photo exhibit on wisdom of the dying The King is Dead: Death Positivity in the Epic of Gilgamesh Palliative care physician BJ Miller asks big questions about how we think on death Artist Nona Limmen on her philosophies of death and the inspiration she finds there Death & the Maidens: Why Women Are Working With Death Saturday September 17, 2016 is the15th annual hearse show in Hell (Hell, MI) Your Own Personal Graveyard: Tiny Tombstones and Memento Mori N.Y. Close to Allowing Pets to be Buried With Their Owners Four things dying people agree are as bad as or worse than death Talk is cheap. Burials are not: Telling people what you want for your funeral is not enough What Happens When a Cemetery Dies? We’re All Going to Die review: Leah Kaminsky puts a positive spin on our demise
Previous installments:Links of the Dead for July 2016 Links of the Dead for June 2016 Links of the Dead for May 2016 Links of the Dead for April 2016 Links of the Dead for March 2016 Links of the dead for February 2016 Links of the dead for January 2016 Links of the dead for December 2015 Links of the dead for November 2015 Links of the dead for September 2015 Links of the dead for August 2015
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Frederik Ruysch
A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.
💀 No one ever tells you that when your dog is dying, it feels like a human is dying. 7 Imaginative But Most Peculiar Novels About Death Dignity in Death for Black Families at a Brooklyn Funeral Home When You Make Friends With Death Documenting death – the final stories of 3 terminally ill people The Dark Magic of Dead Bodies Silent Sisters: Caring for the dead in gendered religious space Cry, Heart, But Never Break: A Remarkable Illustrated Meditation on Loss and Life Exploring Graveyards and our Feelings about Death with Pokémon Go No One Tells You This About Loss, So I Will The 18th-Century Anatomist Who Celebrated Life with Dioramas of Death Yale Open Courses On Death The Dead and their Ghostly Baggage of Superstitions I Simulated My Own Death & Here’s What I Learned
Previous installments:Links of the Dead for June 2016 Links of the Dead for May 2016 Links of the Dead for April 2016 Links of the Dead for March 2016 Links of the dead for February 2016 Links of the dead for January 2016 Links of the dead for December 2015 Links of the dead for November 2015 Links of the dead for September 2015 Links of the dead for August 2015
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