On July 15, Dan Bulf and I held our second Chicago-area Death Café. We’d hoped for 20 people, but we were stunned when our lovely room at Curt’s Café in Evanston was filled to overflowing with 40. The poor air conditioning couldn’t keep up. Thank God for ...
My original question was: “Why the deeply entrenched, societal wide denial of all things Death in this otherwise bold and fact facing country of the U.S. of A.(excepting, of course, Zombies, Vampires and others of the fantastic Undead ilk)? My original response to my really less than original ...
This material makes me afraid. There is a big part of me that wants to not to look.
But through looking at death .... such wonders!
Below is my attempt to explain the objectives for this work. I'm suggesting a dialogue with fear of and aversion to death. I'm ...
In writing about death, nobody has the upper hand, nobody can claim their experience supersedes yours. We all notch up one in our lifetime, and if we are reading or writing then we haven’t made our score yet. Death is always there in the background: we learn of our ...
This week, like much of the country, I have been watching the riots that ripped apart our communities. I don’t only mean watching the incessant news updates and reading the reams of angry and insightful comment. I was immersed in events themselves with riot police at both ends of ...
After watching this weeks' episode of Human Planet on the BBC, I was intrigued to see the discussion of a practice known as "sky burial", as mentioned in our earlier post. In the mountains of Nepal, the high altitudes prevent Buddhists from practicing their usual method of body disposal (cremation ...
These trailblazers come from all sorts of businesses - automotive, design, technology - unburdened by the conventions of their new industry. They introduce products some consider shocking. Traditionalists scoff at them. But these outsiders are revolutionizing one of the world's oldest professions: the funeral industry.
It's a good time to ...