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TalkDeath 2021 Halloween Cemetery Scavenger Hunt!
This Halloween, join us for our second annual TalkDeath Halloween Cemetery Scavenger Hunt! On Sunday October 31st, we invite our community from around ...
Fearing Death at the Hands of a Loved One: The Life of a Victim of Domestic Violence
The following is a guest post by Dana Rutherford on behalf of Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence. ...
Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of an Autopsy Technician
Ceanna Tolbert is a Forensic Autopsy Technician working at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Seattle, ...
Driving the Dead, A History of the Hearse
Hearses are among the most identifiable symbols of death. Join us for the ride as we take ...
A COVID-19 Death Care Retrospective: Stories from our Forgotten Last Responders
We give you these unedited perspectives from around the world and all different positions in death care. ...
Hiding Death: The Hospital and Death Denial
It’s no secret that one of TalkDeath’s aims is to combat death denial, or repressing the reality that one day, we will all ...
Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Hospice Nurse
The death care profession is more than just dealing with dead bodies, and we want to educate ...
#BlackGravesMatter: A Conversation with Dr. Antoinette Jackson of the Black Cemetery Network
As we detailed recently in our article on Juneteenth, the burial sites of enslaved people and historically ...
In Japan ‘tree burials’ are gaining in popularity as a lack of burial space is changing age-old funeral practices
As the global population continues to grow, space for putting the dead to rest is at a ...
Yes, Abortion Grief is Real – Now Let’s Talk About it
Those who experience abortion grief have too often been made to suffer silently in a culture where ...
