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The Order’s growing “death movement” is a reaction against the sanitization of death that has persisted in American culture since the 1800s.

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The roots of inequality, racism, and social marginalization are all grounded in our fear of death.

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The Order Of the Good Death provides resources that help people accept and engage death. Everything from human composting, water cremation, taking care of your own dead, low-cost funerals—if you want to learn about it, we’re here.

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