NEW Death in the Afternoon, Season 2 Episode 2: The Least Worst Death
Hello Again Deathlings,
We're back with another episode of Death in the Afternoon, Season 2. This week's episode: The Least Worst Death
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"Asserting Agency in the Face of Death" – The Poetry of Mourning
Greetings Deathlings,
It's a good day for a brand new, hot off the presses article on The Order site!
"Inventing Farewell: Poetry as a Mortuary P...
2019-03-26 18:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostTake Another Little Piece of My Heart Now Baby
Hello Deathlings,
We meet again for another video combining research, travel, and a whole lotta stuff they don't teach you on high school !
This week we're talking about the Donner Party. Just saying the name "Donner" conjures up so many images in our collective imaginatio...
2019-03-23 14:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Don't Fear) The Aanspreker
Ding-dong! Death calling...
Our new article this week on The Order website is Colonial New York's Door-to-Door Messenger of Death .
Dressed all in black, from his dark knee-breeches and long cloak to ...
2019-03-19 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostDeath in the Afternoon RISES AGAIN!
Your death gals are back!
Welcome to the first episode of Death in the Afternoon, Season 2: Fantastic Funerary Failures.
Cremation and burial are all well and good, but why aren't our dead bodies electroplated or cemented? In our first episode of Death in the A...
The Moment I Wake Up, Before I Put on My (MORTUARY) Makeup
Greetings Deathlings,
Welcome to this very special episode of Ask a Mortician where Caitlin Asks a Mortician!
OK, seriously, are you not impressed by Monica? Your girl is highly skilled, passionate about her work, and knows her way around a skull like nobody's business....
2019-03-02 15:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostNEW Article: On The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Hello Deathling Darlings!
How is February treating you?
Don't worry, I won't bore you with MORE Patreon pledge talk, I just want to take a second to say a quick THANK YOU to all our Patrons old and new. You gave Sarah, Louise, and me LIFE in the form of DEATH this month.&n...
2019-02-27 17:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostMummy, Mummy, Mummy I've Got Plant Matter in My Tummy
I can't tell you how thrilled we are to release this video. Trust that every single member of Team Death Video poured themselves into this one like natron salt into an Egyptian mummy's abdomen.
But it was worth it, deathlings. This was one of those videos that definitely started in on...
2019-02-17 18:05:25 +0000 UTC View PostDecomposition, Death, and Beauty: Our First Article of 2019!
Greetings Deathlings,
It's our first article of the year!
If you're not already a fan of AJ Hawkins' work, this piece just migh...
2019-02-12 18:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA-Tisket, A-Tasket an Eco-Friendly CASKET: It's February and I'M BACK
Welcome back deathlings!
It was a long DARK January, but here we are, rising like a vulture from the carcass of a phoenix... or something.
We at the Order of the Good Death have been busy busy busy since the end of 2018 and we can't wait to unveil the fruits of our labor....
2019-02-02 15:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostAre You There Deathlings? It's Me...Caitlin.
Hello Out There!
How's it going with you in this month of DARKNESS? What are you reading and watching in 2019, WITHOUT ME? Anything noteworthy? I still have two weeks without social media I need your best of January 2019 picks.
We are hard at work at the Order, creating all the ...
2019-01-14 23:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post"Going Dark" in January: the FAQs
For the entire month of January 2019, The Order of the Good Death and the Ask a Mortician channel will be “going dark.” What does “going dark” mean?
No new content in the month of January! No new videos, blogs, social media, or podcasts.
Will I still b...
2018-12-23 17:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostSHE LIVES! How I Overcame Mucus and Dug Up the Details on a Hollywood Mummy
Greetings from Hawaii, deathlings! I’m at the ol’ Doughty homestead.
Real talk: I was gross this past week. Our Lady of Perpetual Snot. I really tried to film this video last weekend, but my body and mucus membranes were having none of it. It’s probably for the best. Appearing o...
2018-12-23 17:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostAn Important Message from Your Mortician About Big Changes in 2019
We're serious, deathlings. Tell us your thoughts. Ask us your questions. Your opinion matters to our dark, desiccated hearts!
Ambitiously,
Caitlin & the Death Video Team
I Can't Keep My Lips SEALED About These Caskets
Can we all take a moment to admire the ART Landis created for this video's thumbnail? There's something so perfectly Americana about retro Tupperware and sealed caskets.
This week's video is the kind of video that really gets my blood pumping. I love a good ground level, FOR THE PEO...
2018-12-14 17:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostI Don't Always Leave My House, But When I Do I Go to METAL Cemeteries
Well my frequent flyer punch card is looking mighty healthy, how's yours doing? (For those of you who don't do the frequent flyer danse macabre or who aren't my mom, they don't actually use punch cards for your mileage, BUT THEY SHOULD.)
A few short weeks ago I was in Brooklyn, New York working on...
2018-12-07 18:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostTalking About Hiroshima is Necessary Right Now, but MAN is it Hard
This was one of the toughest videos that we've worked on in a while. Hiroshima was a cavalcade of horrors: this horrible thing happened, then this horrible thing happened, then – oh wait! – things get even MORE horrible, and then...and then...
From the research to the writing to the filmi...
2018-11-30 17:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostDO WE REALLY HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DEATH during the holidays? (Yes)
I am stoked about the holidays. After this bonkers year of videos, going on book tour, working on another book, Death Salon, and planning for next year, this gal is ready to hunker down with all the food and shovel it in without interruption.
Now granted I'm lucky, I've long since trained my...
2018-11-16 18:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostLiving the Dream: Home Funeral AND Organ Donation
Ok, this is not everyone's definition of "living the dream." I get that. Maybe "dying the dream?"
This video we got tons of advice and input from my friend Nora Menkin and Amber our Undertaking LA funeral director about what they would do for a family that had these requests. Of course...
2018-11-09 18:09:58 +0000 UTC View PostA bit of a STICKY situation (the Honey Mummy)
I love when our thumbnails enter surrealist territory. There is no better video than this one (the maybe true, maybe legend) story of the medicinal honey mummy. Corpse honey for whatever ails you!
Here's the thing, I don't think the story in this video is far-fetched at all. We know how ofte...
2018-11-02 17:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostGrab your fluffy companions, it's SPOOKY SEASON.
It's almost Halloween, you know what that means. SPOOKY VIDEO. Just like last year, I happen to be in the Northeast at leaf falling spooky-time season. (I'm from Hawai'i, so everything in New England and upstate New York seems delightfully evile and full of witches.)
Sarah Chavez, death folk...
2018-10-26 16:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostWho's up for a depressing Iconic Corpse? Anyone? Where did you all go?
Depressing, perhaps. But NECESSARY. You have been asking for us to talk about Saartjie Baartman for quite awhile. We waited because the Iconic Corpse series tends to have a whimsical edge, and Baartman's story is.... not whimsical. Not even sorta whimsical. But it is fascinating, histori...
2018-10-19 19:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's (DEATH) Party Time, Call in the Turkeys!
We had a Death Salon at the historic Mount Auburn Cemetery. What's a Death Salon? Well watch the darn video and find out! (I didn't mean to yell at you like that is was uneccesary and I apologize....also, do you think I'll ever learn how to spell unnecessary? TWO N'S TWO S's.... maybe if...
2018-10-12 16:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostCorpse Flower Truthers, Unite! (Plus Affordable Funerals & Metal Mummies)
I love this kind of episode. It's wonderful to do historically dense tales of death and woe, but it's harder to get weird while doing them. And we all know that I love to get weird.
*cackle*
I talk about my book tour in the episode, I hope some of you can come see me! ...
2018-10-05 17:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhy are migrant bodies disappearing in the desert?
Someone just posted that I'm losing "faithful subribers" for this "political rant." NOT MY SUBRIBERS!
We've been working on this video for months, and are happy to have it out. It's a very partisan time right now, especially if you live in America. So let's gather around an issue where...
2018-09-28 16:12:32 +0000 UTC View PostA Day Late and a DOLL-er Short.
Oh damn I'm so proud of the title of this post.
This video was all ready to do up at it's usual time on Friday morning and you know what happened? NOTHING. I 100% forgot about it. I haven't forgotten to release a video in.... ever, I think?
I was in Toronto for a talk yesterday, ...
2018-09-22 20:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostExhuming Bodies is Fun and Easy (Jk It's Not)
One of the things I learned from traveling around looking at different death customs is just how differently we DO cemeteries. The English speaking world (especially America, yeah I'm looking at you) has such an obsession with letting a body rest in the same grave forever and ever. Even when t...
2018-09-14 16:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy fun embalmed Philippine dictator story!
Listen, some people are lucky enough to grow up down the road from the part wax embalmed body of Ferdinand Marcos and some aren't ok? That's just the way things are. #blessed
Seriously though, I grew up hearing about Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos all the time, but since I was 5 years old, didn...
2018-09-07 17:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostLATE NIGHT DEATHBED VIDEO
Ok, it's Friday. CAITLIN- WHY DIDN'T YOU POST A VIDEO?
Well I did post a video on YouTube this morning (this one!- with doula and amazing death positive woman Alua Arthur). We tried a bunch of new things with filming this, I hope you like it.
BUT- I couldn't post to Patreon because I'v...
2018-09-01 05:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostEmbalmed Hearts & a HUGE Announcement
Whose heart do you want preserved in a metal box and laid a'top you in your grave? Or, counterpoint, where do you want your preserved heart kept for eternity? Lover's grave? Lover's desk drawer? Local fast food restaurant?
Well... welcome to the wonderful world of heart burial. We didn't eve...
2018-08-24 16:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post