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Mexico’s Culinary Traditions Feed the Souls of the Living and the Dead
Through these rituals, food becomes a means of connecting with the spiritual world, as well as a gesture of love and remembrance.
Grief Support & Resources
Dying from Overdose: Overcoming Stigma and Barriers to Mourning
Over the past decade, deaths from drug overdose have increased worldwide, accounting for more than half a million deaths per year. In the ...
Death Care
A Journey Through the History and Types of Pet Preservation
Losing a pet is as difficult as losing any other member of the family. The emotional connection between humans and pets means that ...
A Day in the Life Series
Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Human Composting Technician
Human Composting, also known as natural organic reduction, soil transformation, and Terramation, is the process of turning the deceased into usable, natural soil. ...
Grief Support & Resources
Death and Decluttering: Beyond Swedish Death Cleaning
In my work as a professional organizer, mortality is often encountered, and not only with my most senior clients. Sometimes death is brought ...
Culture & Politics
Understanding the Sikh Tradition of Akhand Path: A Ritual for Processing Grief
Death had been a largely abstract concept for me until I had my first close encounter with it at 23. I was quite ...
Grief Support & Resources
How to Throw a Living Funeral Party
Some ideas for planning your own living funeral, so your loved ones can send you off with a beautiful goodbye.
Culture & Politics
Your Quarterly Death Positive News Update – Q2 2023
Welcome to our second instalment of TalkDeath Quarterly News, where we update you on death related news from green burial to archaeological finds.
Culture & Politics
Beyond Death: How Embracing the Ethics of Otherness Can Transform Relationships with the Dead
Who speaks for the dead when the dead can no longer speak for themselves?
Culture & Politics
Queer Death History: How Same-Sex Adult Adoption Safeguarded End-of-Life Rights
When ‘til death do us part wasn’t an option for queer couples, some chose adult adoption instead.
