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The Mascots of Halloween: Our Mortality as Decoration
Each year as the end of October draws near, we are haunted by images of our inevitable demise. The rattling bones of a ...
Culture & Politics
TalkDeath 2022 Halloween Cemetery Scavenger Hunt
This Halloween, like several before, join us in the tombstone gardens for a safe, spooky and family friendly activity! It’s scavenger hunt time! ...
Culture & Politics
Death Be Not Proud: Gen Z’s Attitudes Surrounding Death and Dying
Because of their macabre sense of humor and increased reflections on death, Gen Z is sometimes thought of as the most jaded generation. ...
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Racial Disparities and Discrimination in the Death Care Industry: A Conversation with The Grave Woman
We sit down with Joél Simone Anthony to discuss the past, present, and future of racism in death care work.
Culture & Politics
Digital Immortality? AI and the Future of Death
We exist in a time where we can create online memorials, hold a virtual memorial service, and even send digital messages after we ...
History & Art
Capturing Death: The Rise and Fall of Post Mortem Photography in America
Since the advent of photography in 1839, the American middle class has used the camera’s ability to document one’s life to cement their ...
Culture & Politics
“Talk to Me, Goose”: Top Gun, Grief, and Toxic Masculinity
The environment of toxic masculinity cultivated in the TOPGUN program disenfranchises and suffocates Maverick’s grief.
Culture & Politics
Japan’s Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life
Kyoko Murakami, University of Bath Each year in Japan, people celebrate ohigan, a period of seven days around both the vernal and the ...
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Sending Text Messages from the Afterlife
Sending texts from the other side: the pre-planning before you die correspondence, not the spooky ghost talk.
Culture & Politics
How Psychedelics Can Help Patients Face the End of Life
Psychedelics are helping patients make their final trip out of this world. Find out how psychedelics can help patients face the end of ...
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Funeral Traditions from Ireland: How the Irish Embrace Death
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Today is the anniversary of the death of Saint Patrick. We celebrate his Feast Day, which ...
