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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 ...
Grief Support & Resources
Sending Text Messages from the Afterlife
Sending texts from the other side: the pre-planning before you die correspondence, not the spooky ghost talk.
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 ...
Culture & Politics
Necropolitics and the Erasure of Trans and Non-Binary Bodies in Death
Many trans bodies are ‘lost’ within systems that ignore all aspects of biological sex and gender.
News
HIRING: Social Media Manager & Staff Writer (Remote Position)
Are you passionate about death consciousness, green and alternative death practices, social justice, educational outreach and writing? TalkDeath is looking to hire a ...
Grief Support & Resources
How to Hold a Hybrid Memorial Service, a Step-by-Step Guide
Thanks to the ubiquity of smart devices, hybrid memorial services are easier than ever to achieve. Although the idea of holding a hybrid ...
Death Care
Becoming Human Compost: The Process of Natural Organic Reduction
“Throw me in the woods, let me decompose, and I’ll just be plant food,” says every aunt and uncle who wants to be ...
