Brought to you by TalkDeath and Sarah Warren: A comedy show for people who love someone that’s dead

Brought to you by TalkDeath and Sarah Warren: A comedy show for people who love someone that’s dead

It costs a lot to die. Between healthcare bills, body disposition costs, funerary event expenses, and administrative duties, dying doesn’t come cheap, especially as the costs of living continue to…

When Jessica Mitford criticized the funeral profession, Dr. Kami Fletcher argues that it wasn’t the African American funeral director Mitford had in mind.

Grave robbing jewelry, headstones, and human remains is still a problem in the 21st century. Why and what can we do about it?

When my daughter was three, she asked where her grandmother was. I had never imagined myself explaining death to a three-year-old.

Here at TalkDeath, we have talked about how LGBTQ people are not represented in death in ways that affirm who they were, who they loved, and how they lived their lives.

Join TalkDeath and local death care workers for fast and fascinating deep dives into topics related to death, end-of-life, and grief

The step by step process of cremation with included photos. Cremation is on the rise in many countries, including the US and Canada.

Life Forest is a nonprofit conservation cemetery that offers legally protected cremation burial options in natural landscapes in Hillsborough, New Hampshire and Auburn, ME. Their cemeteries give folks...

Iku presents itself as a young and handsome Black man, wearing all white, with a skull painted on his face to calmly guide those who have perished. Or Iku is portrayed as a female or an androgenous…

The compression of grief under neoliberal, capitalist time makes our lives smaller and mourning that much harder.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

Poetry has always had a strong pulse on the human condition. Part of the human condition that is universal is how death will come for all of us. As a poet myself, I know that the page is what holds me...

Poetry has always had a strong pulse on the human condition. Part of the human condition that is universal is how death will come for all of us. As a poet myself, I know that the page is what holds me...

About a year after my father died, my younger sister called me to ask about her car registration. “It’s expiring,” she said, “but the car isn’t registered in my name, so I’m not sure how to renew it.”…

When Lauren Richwine founded her Fort Wayne, Indiana business, Death Done Differently, she envisioned helping families navigate one of life’s most difficult transitions. As a “death doula…

The first time I saw a potter’s field was with my dad back in 2010 in Fresno, California. We spent the day touring tombstones, with my dad as tour guide, starting with visits to family gravesites in…

The impact of traumatic death on social networks: Reflecting on grief and bereavement support in the context of sudden deaths

Death care practices and funeral rituals have been around for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that there is an entire lexicon of terms related to these landscapes. From hospice care and MAID…

Join us for a virtual screening of ‘Stitch & Time,’ followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on Thursday, March 26 at 8pm ET/5pm PT