OMG, a Celebrity Mortician
The funeral industry has a true celebrity, Caitlin Doughty. She is a mortician, a New York Times bestselling author, and a leader in the budding ...
Category: Interesting People
My Rock n Roll Dad: A Unique Story of Remembrance
The year is 1969. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have recently been assassinated. Riots have swept many large American cities. And now ...
“The Deathbed Poet” – How One Man Makes Poems of Life’s Last Hours
Michael Gaspeny knows secrets. He knows lives. He knows what makes people smile, and what makes them sin. He knows what makes people tick, and ...
Checking-in with the Guru of Celebrity Death Pools, Kelly Bakst
Shortly after the 2013 death of Paul Walker, our Justin Nobel had the chance to visit with the Guru of Celebrity Death Pools, Kelly Bakst. ...
New Orleans Death Talk: Decatur Street Artist Blue Fletcher
Blue Fletcher, Decatur Street Artist, French Quarter "My name is Blue. I think about death constantly. My husband died last November and we’re coming up on ...
Nola Death Tete-a-tete: The Vanishing LGBT Bookkeeper
Otis Fennell, Owner of Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, Frenchman Street. "This store was founded in the ‘70s because there were very few sources for gay ...
Nola Death Tête-à-tête – Pirate’s Alley Artist Nathan Durapau
Nathan Durapau, 24, Pirate's Alley artist. "I was born and raised in Mexico. My parents were missionaries and I spent the first 12 years of my ...
Take a cemetery walk with Minda Powers-Douglas
Minda Powers-Douglas is passionate about cemeteries. It was her mother who introduced her to the beauty, history, and art that can be found in what ...
To Live and Die in Nola: Interview with New Orleans’ Most Famous Obituary Writer
John Pope was born and raised in New Orleans and has been working at the Times-Picayune since 1973, when the paper was called the States-Item. ...
Mystery writer Jaden Terrell talks death, murder, and figuring it all out
For crime novelist, Jaden Terrell, writing about death is a way to confront her own fears. The Nashville-based author has three successful detective novels on ...
My Name is Katharine Lowrie and I Talk to Dead People
Katharine Lowrie often introduces herself as someone who talks to dead people. It might be a bit more accurate to say she talks about dead ...
Piping New Orleans’ Dead into Heaven – Interview with a funeral bagpipe player and hospice musician
New Orleans is a small town, everyone has their favorite local cobbler or po-boy shop and when it comes to funeral bagpipes the go-to woman ...
In a World Where We All Live to 120 – Interview with Dr. Felipe Sierra of the National Institute on Aging
In a world where humans regularly live to 120, retirement might occur at 105. Other people might retire at 65 then return to school and ...
Talking about life and death with the President of the National Museum of Funeral History.
Visiting the National Museum of Funeral History (NMFH) is a treat. It’s a fun and quirky place that’s filled with unique and well planned displays, ...
The Man Who Saves Graves – How John Fogerty, Bonnie Raitt and a former vintage guitar dealer named Skip Henderson helped preserve Mississippi’s Blues
Mississippi is red dirt, green fields, crumbling small towns and looping muddy rivers overhung by thick forest, like mini Amazons, but if you take a ...
