On the death of Robin Williams
It’s not hard to understand why the death of Robin Williams has touched our collective soul so deeply. The simple explanation is that Mr. Williams ...
Category: Death in Popular Culture
‘Death simulator’ attraction to open in China
There are lots of ways you can work a death theme into your vacation plans (check out Seven Death-themed Museums to Visit in 2014), but this ...
Business of death care gets a technology makeover
4 August 2014 Last updated at 19:17 ET Business of death care gets a technology makeover By Nicholas Tufnell Death is big business. With more than half a million people in ...
Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind
Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind By NEAL CHARNOFF, VPR News It’s natural that people, for the most part, do not like ...
Pet hospice is alive and doing well
Pet hospice is alive and doing well More pet owners choose hospice care for ailing pets 07/22/2014 | ConsumerAffairs | By Stacey Cohen Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote the ...
A Land Where Nobody Discusses Death – Interview with a NASCAR Driver
I know nothing about NASCAR but when journalist Eric Benson suggested I interview a driver for this blog I agreed it would be fascinating to ...
In a City of Extremes, Who is New Orleans Most ‘Extremely Embalmed’ Corpse?
This weekend in New Orleans was Jazz Fest and we know about jazz funerals, but what about 'extreme embalming' funerals?
Death on the Streets of New Orleans, With A Man Walking Four Cute Dogs
I found Blaine Dorr walking in the sunshine on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans with a bright blue sweatshirt and four ...
Reaching Beyond The Veil – An Interview With Theremin Maestro Armen Ra
I am in a cheap motel in the middle of nowhere and click on a YouTube video.
7 Honest Questions About Death With Caitlin Doughty
For her "Ask a Mortician" video series Los Angeles mortician Caitlin Doughty has spoken candidly about topics like cat cremation and whether or not corpses ...
The Act of Killing, and the 3 Most Frightening and Surreal Best Documentary Oscars From Years Past
The Oscars are coming up, and few who saw the film will likely be surprised that The Act of Killing has been nominated for Best ...
Five Things I Learned From A Book On Child Reincarnation
A boy in western Louisiana believes he’s the reincarnation of a pilot shot down over Iwo Jima in World War II, an infant who died ...
Extreme Cold and the Perplexing Case of Paradoxical Undressing
Here in New Orleans temperatures bottomed out at 23°F this morning, sure that seems like nothing if you live in Minnesota, where temps bottomed out ...
Seven Death-themed Museums to Visit in 2014
From a bulletproof hearse for the Pope to an exhibit on how to build a guillotine to the conjoined liver of Chang and Eng, the ...
Can Adult Men Die as Infants? – Britain’s Real Life Benjamin Buttons
Imagine being born an old man and dying an infant. That’s exactly what happens to Brad Pitt in the 2008 movie "The Curious Case of ...
