In Honor of Embalming – Rock Star Louisiana Funeral Director Courtney Baloney Defends the Corpse
“Prior to Covid, would you attend a wedding ceremony without the bride and groom? No. Well then why would you attend a funeral service without ...
Category: Funeral Customs
The Louisiana Funeral Director at the Center of Covid-19: An Exclusive Interview With Courtney Baloney
Back in April, newspapers reported that in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, the COVID-19 death rate was the highest of any county in America ...
Coronavirus Challenges – Six Months On, How Are We Remembering the Dead?
“It’s an essential human fear that we don’t want to die alone, and the worst part of it for our family was knowing that he ...
What’s the Best Way to Face Death? Now There’s A Zoom Class For That.
“If we woke up each morning, knowing we only had a year to live what would change? How would we greet the day, our partner, ...
Imagining the “Solar Cemetery” – A Talk With Mortician Caitlin Doughty
The year 2020 has been a year of great change. As we re-imagine many aspects of our society and how best to live on planet ...
Welcome to the Age of the Drive-Thru Funeral—Is It Here To Stay?
As the United States moves into its fourth month of quarantine mode, Americans have gotten accustomed to drive-thru medical checkups, and drive-thru grocery pickups, and ...
Will coronavirus forever change the American way of death & the meaning of life? – Interview with Morbid Anatomy’s Joanna Ebenstein
Why is toilet paper the thing Americans happen to be hoarding? Will coronavirus forever change the American way of death? How is this similar to ...
Hart Island Back in the News
With its curious and often dark history, New York City’s Hart Island is no stranger to notoriety. Now it is once again in the news. ...
The Other Coronavirus Death, From Loneliness, Anxiety And A Failure Of the Heart
Yesterday I received a note from a colleague highlighting another aspect of the coronavirus crisis—not only are the nation’s older adults dying from coronavirus, the ...
Is Joe Biden Dead? Political Coffins, From Margaret Thatcher to Andrew Jackson
"You can skip Nevada. You can skip South Carolina. And go straight home to Delaware!"
Welcome To The Age Of The Bicycle Hearse
We know that bicycles are blazing in cities across the United States, with bike-share programs, bike shops, bicycle-friendly cafes and bicycle-friendly clothing lines popping up ...
Presidents, Past Presidents And Presidential Nominees – Who Had The Grandest State Funeral In Modern History?
Who had the grandest funeral of them all?
The Best Cemetery Road Trip List Ever – Fifty Cemeteries Fifty States, Maine to Illinois
As summer peaks and prepares to slide into fall, people tend to get that itch for one last carefree adventure, and there is a new ...
A Garbage Truck Funeral Procession, And Other Great Marches of the Dead
A convoy of garbage trucks marched with a coffin to the grave earlier this month in Springfield, Illinois.
