logo
logo
Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
    • TalkDeath Team
    • Contributors
    • Death Positive Resources
    • Contact Us
  • Articles
      • Featured
          • Featured

            • Death Care

              Careers in Death Care

              September 2, 2017
          • Popular

            1. how much does cremation cost

              How Much Does Cremation Cost in North America?

              March 10, 2014177 views
            2. Burial Now Illegal

              Burial Now Illegal in Chinese Province

              June 3, 2014141 views
            3. Would You Put a QR Code on a Tombstone?

              August 14, 2014105 views
            4. Storycorps: Grief in the Digital Age

              November 6, 2014135 views
      • Culture & Politics
          • Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial. People…
          • Death Positive Video Games Death Positive Video Games There are a growing number of death positive video games…
          • Michif Storytelling: Connecting Us To the Dead Thinking about Michif concepts of death and Storytelling brings me…
          • Explore Category
      • Death Care
          • Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a DEATH DOULA Presenting our new ongoing series, Careers in Death Care: A…
          • careers in death care Careers in Death Care There is probably more than a little truth to the…
          • Forensic Body Farms: What You Need to Know WARNING: This post about body farms contains text and images…
          • Explore Category
      • Enviroment
          • Green Burial Updates Green Burial Updates 2020 Just like your grandmother's perennials in early spring, the term…
          • Bio Cremation: A Greener Death? What is legal in only 13 States, 3 Canadian Provinces…
          • Ecological Grief: Mourning the Loss of Our Planet Ecological grief is defined as the grief felt in response…
          • Explore Category
      • Grief Support & Resources
          • woman looking at sea while sitting on beach Accessibility and Privilege in Grief Support Grief support leads to healthier people, families and societies, so…
          • How Funerals and Grief are Changing in the Age of Coronavirus How Funerals and Grief are Changing in the Age of Coronavirus Social distancing, self-isolation and other measures are changing death. Find…
          • the 5 stages of grief are wrong Kübler-Ross The 5 Stages of Grief are Wrong, Here’s Why In the past, we explored the 5 Stages of Grief…
          • Explore Category
      • More Categories
          • History & Art

            • History & Art

              A Brief History of Body Snatching

              December 15, 2015
          • Explore Category
          • Interview Series

            • Death Care

              Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a FUNERAL CELEBRANT

              December 14, 2020
          • Explore Category
  • Webseries
  • Merch
  • Contact Us

Death Care

There is probably more than a little truth to the old adage about job security in the funeral profession. After all, everyone is going to die. Explore the world of death care, including our chats with professionals, who provide first hand experience and insight on working in this field.

How to Care for a Deceased Pet at Home 

By Abbie Stutzer

Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a FUNERAL CELEBRANT

By TalkDeath

Telling Their Stories – Memorializing Millions of Veterans Online

By TalkDeath

Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of an EMBALMER

We caught up with mortician Miranda Benge Hummeldorf to tell us what a day in the life of an Embalmer is really like! ...
By TalkDeathOctober 28, 20200
Death Care
Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Funeral Director
Death Care

Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Funeral Director

The death care profession is more than just dealing with dead bodies, and we want to educate you about all the different career ...
By TalkDeathOctober 5, 20200
Death Care

Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a DEATH DOULA

Presenting our new ongoing series, Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life, where we chat with professionals within the end-of-life and ...
By TalkDeathAugust 10, 20201
how to hold a virtual memorial service
Death Care

How to Hold a Virtual Memorial Service, a Step-by-Step Guide

In this article, I outline the steps that were taken to organize an online memorial service. I will share the tools that were ...
By Mandy BenoualidMay 12, 20202
A Deeper Dive into Death retreat
Culture & Politics

A Deeper Dive Into Death Retreat

A review of A Deeper Dive into Death, an end-of-life retreat and death doula workshop hosted by Death Doula LA.
By Mandy BenoualidMarch 10, 20200

Posts navigation

1234…8

Popular Posts

  1. how much does cremation cost

    How Much Does Cremation Cost in North America?

    March 10, 2014177 views
  2. Burial Now Illegal

    Burial Now Illegal in Chinese Province

    June 3, 2014141 views
  3. Would You Put a QR Code on a Tombstone?

    August 14, 2014105 views
  4. Storycorps: Grief in the Digital Age

    November 6, 2014135 views

Follow us on Instagram

Washington state residents just got another body d Washington state residents just got another body disposition option.

Recompose, a natural organic reduction (aka human-composting) funeral home, is the first of its kind to open in the United States.

Katrina Spade, Recompose founder and CEO, came up with her funeral home’s concept 10 years ago while considering how she wanted her remains handled.

The @RecomposeLife “process” has a few steps. “[It] takes 30 days in a vessel full of wood chips and straw, then another few weeks in ‘curing bins,’ large boxes (one per person) where soil is allowed to rest and continue exhaling carbon dioxide,” the Seattle Times reports. “Once that process is complete, friends and chosen family can either retrieve the soil themselves, or donate it to an ecological restoration project at Bells Mountain near Vancouver, Washington. So far, most have elected to donate.”

“This is a very controlled process, completely driven by microbes,” @KatrinaSpade said to the Times. “It’s fuelled by plant material and monitored in a very rigorous way.”

The entire service—including body pickup, paperwork, body disposition, and optional service—costs $5,500.

Quotes and Images from the Seattle Times.
.
.
.
.
#Recompose #BodyComposting #Death #DeathPositive #Funeral #Dying #DeathCare #EcologicalDeathCare #KatrinaSpade #NaturalOrganicReduction
“Grandma once broke up a knife fight in the neig “Grandma once broke up a knife fight in the neighborhood. She kept the knife in a drawer as a trophy, and would tell the story to anyone who’d listen. Grandma was also very Italian. And very Catholic. And she loved the lottery. Big, big fan of the lottery. She was always on the lookout for numbers to play. Then every night she’d watch the numbers roll out on Channel 8. But she hardly ever won. She used to split her winnings between her grandchildren, and it was never much. A couple bucks here and there. I remember getting $10 one time.

Grandma was 89 when she passed away. On the day that she died I found a penny wedged into the sole of my shoe. Just a coincidence, I’m sure. But then I start finding pennies everywhere. But they’re pennies, right? They’re supposed to be everywhere, so maybe I was just grasping for signs. My academic advisor knew I was feeling sad, so she suggested that I study abroad. Of course I wanted to go to Italy, but even with scholarships it was like $10,000 more than regular tuition- so I didn’t even want to ask my parents. Fast forward a few months to Grandma’s birthday...

I’m not super religious so I’m sitting there the whole time thinking: ‘This is such bullshit.’ But then that night I had the craziest dream. I’m at a Cumberland Farms gas station near my house, scratching off a lottery ticket, and suddenly I start laughing because I won a bunch of money.

The next day I text my friends that we’ve got to buy a lottery ticket. And when I met up with my friend Cassie after work that night, we headed straight to Cumberland Farms. I bought one lotto ticket. $5 Diamonds.

I’d barely ever played before, and I’d certainly never bought a $5 scratch off. As soon as we got back to the car, I grabbed a penny and started scratching. Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ was playing on the radio. When I get to the third row of numbers, BAM. I had a match. $10,000. Enough to cover one whole semester in Florence.”

Repost (slightly edited for length) from Humans of New York.
.
.
.
.
#Death #Memories #Memorial #Famiy #DeathPositive #Stories #Storytelling #HumansofNewYork
We’re *feeling* this print. It’s sure been a We’re *feeling* this print.

It’s sure been a long week.⚰️💤

P.S. Someone please make this mattress!

This image is available on t-shirts via @Discount_Stab_Shack
.
.
.
.
#Death #DeathPositive #Art #IndependentArt #Coffin #Funeral #Burial
On March 3, Morbid Anatomy’s founder @joannaeben On March 3, Morbid Anatomy’s founder @joannaebenstein will begin teaching the course “Make Your Own Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination.”

The class will utilize “readings, slide lectures, screenings, discussions, and guest speakers, [to] explore the ways death was understood and represented in different times and places.”

You can register for the class via Morbid Anatomy’s link in bio.

Image repost via @MorbidAnatomy . The piece of art is “The Young Girl and Death,” c.1900, by Marianne Stokes.
.
.
.
.
#Death #Class #DeathClass #DeathPositive #Learning #DeathWork #MementoMori #DeathArt
Load More...

What is TalkDeath?

TalkDeath is the hub for a changing death-conscious public. TalkDeath aims to bridge the gap between death professionals and the general public, helping people make informed end-of-life decisions.

TalkDeath.com is brought to you by Keeper Memorials

Features

Culture & Politics
Death Care
Environment
Grief Support & Resources
History & Art
Interview Series
#TalkDeath Webseries

Newsletter Signup


Follow Us

Copyright © 2020 TalkDeath - All Rights Reserved.
logo
  • Home
  • About Us
    • TalkDeath Team
    • Contributors
    • Death Positive Resources
    • Contact Us
  • Articles
      • Featured
          • Featured

            • Interview Series

              The Modern Mortician and the Future of Funerals

              February 6, 2018
          • Popular

            1. how much does cremation cost

              How Much Does Cremation Cost in North America?

              March 10, 2014177 views
            2. Burial Now Illegal

              Burial Now Illegal in Chinese Province

              June 3, 2014141 views
            3. Would You Put a QR Code on a Tombstone?

              August 14, 2014105 views
            4. Storycorps: Grief in the Digital Age

              November 6, 2014135 views
      • Culture & Politics
          • Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories and Reopen Protests as Death Denial. People…
          • Death Positive Video Games Death Positive Video Games There are a growing number of death positive video games…
          • Michif Storytelling: Connecting Us To the Dead Thinking about Michif concepts of death and Storytelling brings me…
          • Explore Category
      • Death Care
          • Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a DEATH DOULA Presenting our new ongoing series, Careers in Death Care: A…
          • careers in death care Careers in Death Care There is probably more than a little truth to the…
          • Forensic Body Farms: What You Need to Know WARNING: This post about body farms contains text and images…
          • Explore Category
      • Enviroment
          • Green Burial Updates Green Burial Updates 2020 Just like your grandmother's perennials in early spring, the term…
          • Bio Cremation: A Greener Death? What is legal in only 13 States, 3 Canadian Provinces…
          • Ecological Grief: Mourning the Loss of Our Planet Ecological grief is defined as the grief felt in response…
          • Explore Category
      • Grief Support & Resources
          • woman looking at sea while sitting on beach Accessibility and Privilege in Grief Support Grief support leads to healthier people, families and societies, so…
          • How Funerals and Grief are Changing in the Age of Coronavirus How Funerals and Grief are Changing in the Age of Coronavirus Social distancing, self-isolation and other measures are changing death. Find…
          • the 5 stages of grief are wrong Kübler-Ross The 5 Stages of Grief are Wrong, Here’s Why In the past, we explored the 5 Stages of Grief…
          • Explore Category
      • More Categories
          • History & Art

            • Culture & Politics

              Best Movies About Death

              December 31, 2014
          • Explore Category
          • Interview Series

            • Interview Series

              #Talkdeath – Your Questions Answered

              March 22, 2015
          • Explore Category
  • Webseries
  • Merch
  • Contact Us

logo

✕
  • Home
  • About TalkDeath
  • Merch
  • Contact Us
  • Culture & Politics
  • Death Care
  • Environment
  • Grief Support & Resources
  • History & Art
  • Interview Series
  • Resources
  • Webseries