Category: Interesting People
Meet the world’s bravest undertakers – Liberia’s Ebola burial squad
It is impossible to imagine how difficult it must be to work on the front lines of the Ebola crisis. We see the faces of the medical ...
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 ...
Death on the Streets of New Orleans, with a futuristic pirate type individual named “You Who”
I found You Who squatting over a row of trash bags on Royal Street, picking through shiny gold and purple streamers, which matched his purple ...
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 ...
The Distance Between Art and Death – An Interview with Visual Artist Susan Silas
There is something sacred about taking a walk, seeing the places others have seen, following in the footsteps of another’s journey. Your own images leave ...
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 Questions About Death With Yoga Superstar Sadie Nardini
Imagine you are a 13 year-old junior high school student, you don’t feel well so you go to the doctor and are told you have ...
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 ...
To Live and Die in LA – Interview With the Guru of Celebrity Death
How many people guessed that Paul Walker was going to die this year? The answer, at least as far as the celebrity death pool goes ...
Death and the Higgs Boson – Talking Mortality with a Physicist
For Dr. Mark Kruse, a Duke University physicist specializing in high-energy particle physics, mortality is often on the mind. Not just mortality of the individual, ...
How Do You Talk to Dead Pets and Saddam Hussein? A Chat With Superstar Animal Communicator Charles Peden
Charles Peden is a pet medium, aka animal communicator. He makes his living by communicating with dead pets (and also lost and misbehaving ones). He ...
Funeral Boss Frank Stewart Jr. Shares His Secrets on Cemeteries, Cremation and the Meaning of Life
In 1910, Frank Stewart Jr.’s grandfather was deeded a piece of property he couldn’t sell. It was a cemetery, and he decided to keep it ...
How To Avoid Being Struck By Lightning This Summer – An Interview With Dr. Lightning
During the 1940s lightning killed several hundred people a year in the U.S., in recent years annual lightning fatalities have dropped to below 40 people. ...
Death For Breakfast, Lunch And Dinner – An Interview With The Guru Of Cremation
According to the Cremation Association of North America some 42 percent of Americans are now getting cremated, might this mark the beginning of the downfall ...
