What was so powerful about these Aztec mothers that their corpses had to be guarded from warriors?
May 13, 2018 | Blog
Motherhood on the Battlefield of Death
Cabinet of Curiosities: The Jizo Statues of Japan
These little stone statues resembling plump-cheeked children belie a mournful purpose.
May 13, 2018 | Blog
An Interview with My Mother, A Grave Gardener
It is because of my grave gardener mom that I’ve grown to become a death-positive woman. I’m a woman who considers death a part of life.
April 18, 2018 | Blog
Cabinet of Curiosities: Victorian Death Dolls
We hope you enjoy our new series, Cabinet of Curiosities, that looks at the objects that have helped us prepare for dying, ritualize death, and mourn the dead.
March 25, 2018 | Blog
The Oldest Rite of Humanity and My Father’s Wake
“Sonny was a very ordinary man and his life passed unnoticed by a wider world. But Sonny did have one advantage over most of us; he knew how to die. And he knew how to do that because his fathers and mothers on the island, wake after wake, had shown him how.”
March 17, 2018 | Blog
Caring For a Community of the Dead
Writer and cemetery tour guide, Allison Meier spoke to Anthony Pisciotta, a man who frequently passed by a deteriorating cemetery in his community and decided to take action.
March 1, 2018 | Blog
Baltimore’s Mount Auburn Cemetery: Autonomously African & Free from White Control
Baltimore’s Mount Auburn Cemetery proudly stands as a living memorial of Black history
February 26, 2018 | Blog
What I Wish I’d Given Him: Grappling With Gifts For a Dying Family Member
Gift-giving in the shadow of death.
February 17, 2018 | Blog
The Year of Action Resource Guide
The Year of Action is here, deathlings. **************
February 10, 2018 | Blog
UNEARTHING GORINI, THE PETRIFIER
In this preview of Ivan Cenzi’s upcoming book, The Petrifier, we meet Paolo Gorini, a scientist and engineer, devoted to the destiny of the dead.
February 3, 2018 | Blog
What Death Positive is NOT
Movements are defined by the change they create– what they are. But our founder Caitlin Doughty wants to dispel myths about the term death positive, further defining the movement by what it is not.
January 25, 2018 | Blog
Death Positivity in the Face of Grief
There’s so much potential inside what we know as death positive people, but there is a chasm there, between the ways we talk about death in the abstract, and the ways we live inside actual death and grief. We’ve got to start talking about grief in the face of deaths that are not beautiful.
January 18, 2018 | Blog