Abandoned cemetery in Richmond Virginia. Photo by Billy Collier.

Many of us still cannot bear to talk about death. Even when we know it’s important. Even though we may want to. So why not? And what would we stand to gain if, instead, we learned to speak about dying more openly? vox.com/advice/420785/…

When buying a casket, you do NOT have to purchase one from a funeral home. You can use an online retailer, have one custom made, or even make it yourself orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/eco-…

Everything that was dear to Adrián Luna was in a small town in Idaho, and when he was deported, he died trying to find it again nytimes.com/2018/10/14/us/…

The desire to reach out across the divide between life and death remains one of the most primal desires we have. The A.I. “griefbot” is just the latest iteration of that desire nytimes.com/2025/07/10/sty…

A legal fight over access to burial grounds has pitted the Gullah Geechee against wealthy landowners around Hilton Head Island nytimes.com/2025/07/29/us/…

The Order Supports Death Positive Programming on PBS On August 6, 2025 PBS will be premiering a new documentary, The Last Ecstatic Days, an intimate look at a man with brain cancer in search of a community and his hospice doctor who gives up everything to honor his dying wish.

Fashion studies professor, Sherry Haar, designed several funeral garments and textiles as a way to start conversations about green burial practices youtu.be/Anb9IuQUAlM?si…

Dancing and death might not seem the most obvious bedfellows, but for some, honoring those we’ve lost through music and movement is the most natural thing in the world Read “I went to a grief rave – here’s why everyone should try it” the-independent.com/life-style/gri…

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