2021
Links of the Dead (July 2021)
categories: unquiet things
A gathering of death-related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From heart-rending to gut-splitting (sometimes you gotta laugh, you know?) from informative to insightful to sometimes just downright weird and creepy, here’s a snippet of recent items that have been reported on or journaled about with regard to death, dying, and matters of mortality.
Previously: July 2020 | July 2019 | July 2018 | July 2017 | July 2016
💀7 Books about the Heartbreak of Losing a Sibling
💀Video Games Are Helping More People Process Death
💀Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?
💀Who is going to look after your social media profiles after you die?
💀‘Roadrunner’ Will Make You Mourn Anthony Bourdain All Over Again
💀A haunting photo collection of famous people’s death masks, 1300-1950
💀Is ‘I told you I was sick’ the new Rest in Peace? A look at changing traditions in headstones
💀Obituaries My Mother Wrote For Me When I Was Living In San Francisco In My Twenties