Could tiny-brained humans have actually dug graves half a million years ago?
Deep inside a South African cave called Rising Star, scientists have made an incredible discovery—a species of ancient humans that appears to have buried their ...
Tag: death and dying
What to Wear In the Afterlife? – Interview TWO With Rock Star Animal Communicator Charles Peden
“I can communicate with insects, and I can communicate with whales,” animal communicator Charles Peden told Digital Dying when we spoke five years ago.
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 ...
The Lonely Death and Fantastic Reincarnation of Nikola Tesla
In an attempt to inspire Americans to be innovative and inventive, President Obama called out to inventors, and in particular, immigrant inventors in his State ...
TED Talks about death and dying can inspire us to plan for the inevitable.
Death and dying are not topics that most of us are particularly fond of thinking about. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. In fact, not ...
Weekly News 2/22/2016: Home funerals in the news.
The increasing interest in home funerals tops this week's news. We learned about Diane Rehm's thoughts on life and death, how to think outside the ...
Weekly News 2/15/2016: Home funerals and how we say goodbye
Home funerals, saying goodbye, and learning more about how we handle grief are at the top of this week's news. We also learned more about ...
Weekly News: Green burials, mushroom suits, and special people in the industry.
Green burials and the environment dominated this week's news--from overall considerations in how in ground burial impacts the environment to a burial suit that sprouts ...
Weekly News 1/11/2016: Saying goodbye to David Bowie
Weekly news roundup: Saying goodbye to David Bowie On Monday, January 10th we said goodbye to music icon David Bowie. His death meant differing things to ...
Strange Deaths 2015: Another big year for selfie deaths.
Last year, our strange death report uncovered a disturbing trend--death by selfie. The 2014 list identified 10 cases where people died trying to get that perfect ...
The Transgender Funeral Struggle – A Report From the Frontier of Sexual Identity and Death
A woman had died, and Reverend Ginny Wheeler faced a dilemma. Wheeler, of the Community United Methodist Church, in Huntington Beach, California was conducting the ...
Weekly News 12/14/2015: Rest in Peace Patrol Horse Charlotte
On December 3rd, Houston Police officer Officer D. Herrejon and his partner, Patrol Horse Charlotte, were traveling on a busy downtown thorofare when a loud noise ...
Weekly News 11/30/2015: Jonah Lomu Haka Salute
In an inspiring display of comradery, teammates honored New Zealand rugby great Jonah Lomu with a breathtaking Haka dance as he was laid to rest. ...
How Much Death is Too Much Death? A Visit to New Orleans’ Newly Opened Museum of Death
Speaking from behind the welcome counter, on which sits a tall jar of teeth, a sheep skull and a photo of a dismembered human being ...
Taking the James Gurney Grave Challenge: Down Among the Dead Men
For most of my life, I have lived within three miles of a cemetery. Once, I kid you not, our home was located so that ...
