Order contributor Aisha Adkins on the value and importance of having a Death Buddy — someone who you can share your curiosity and fears surrounding death with in a safe and relatively matter-of-fact manner.
April 27, 2019 | Blog
The idea of royalty sharing their beds with the shrivelled corpse of a man yanked out of a grave is nothing short of shocking, but it wouldn’t have been an unusual sight in the court of the Spanish Habsburgs.
April 18, 2019 | Blog
These students were brave. The assignments were weird. What happened when author and teacher David Sherman created a class for his students to reinvent their relationship to the dead?
March 26, 2019 | Blog
Dressed all in black, from his dark knee-breeches and long cloak to a three-cornered hat adorned with black crepe streamers, the aanspreker carried one message: someone was dead.
March 19, 2019 | Blog
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice was created to be a dynamic response to reconciliation in the United States. The memorial allows for dialogue, creating a space for conversation regarding the violence done to Black Americans as a vital way to reckon with our past, present, and future.
February 27, 2019 | Blog
Three years ago artist AJ Hawkins set out to create The Reclamation, a stunning series on the stages of decomposition. Here’s a behind the scenes look at her three year journey creating the series, opening a business, and her advice to others considering their own death positive initiatives.
February 12, 2019 | Blog
As isolating as caregiving can feel at times, it does not take place in a vacuum; external factors can greatly impact the caregiver on an economic, historical, or a sociological level. Aisha Adkins is back with a breakdown on demographic-specific challenges and concerns for minority caregivers.
December 20, 2018 | Blog
Caregiving is an unexpected role for millennials, but if you’re starting on this journey, you are far from alone. There were 40 million millennial caregivers in 2015. Caregiving can be overwhelming, but there are some ways you can prepare yourself for this new chapter in your life. Aisha Adkins explains.
December 12, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to Death in the Afternoon, a new podcast about all things mortal, from The Order of the Good Death.
December 9, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to Death in the Afternoon, a new podcast about all things mortal, from The Order of the Good Death.
November 30, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to Death in the Afternoon, a new podcast about all things mortal, from The Order of the Good Death.
November 24, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to Death in the Afternoon, a new podcast about all things mortal, from The Order of the Good Death.
November 15, 2018 | Blog