2020
Links of the Dead {November 2020}
categories: art, death and dying
Oil on canvas – 2015
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.
This time last year: {November 2018}| {November 2017} | {November 2016} | {November 2015}
💀 Green-Wood Cemetery’s New Artist-in-Residence
💀 COVID-19 has made this the saddest Day of the Dead in Los Angeles
💀 The Death Positive Movement Encourages Us to Face Death Directly
💀 Modernist home situated within Highgate Cemetery in London is up for sale
💀 ‘We can’t grieve’: online forum where Covid bereaved feel they can share
💀 Book reveiw: Funeral Diva,’ a Mix of Memoir and Poetry, Stirs the Body and Mind