Chevra Kadisha and the Ritual Care of the Dead
The Chevra Kadisha performs an invaluable service to their Jewish communities, facilitating the transition of body and soul to the next stage.
Culture & Politics
A Grave of One’s Own: The Body Politics of Green Burial
When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she was advocating for women to have a space to write, a ...
Culture & Politics
What is a Death Cafe all about? My experience studying, participating and hosting Death Cafes
The objective of Death Cafe is not to make light of death, it is to face it, in whatever form that takes.
Culture & Politics
Death Personified: The Best Fiction with Death as a Character
We have several articles that list the many books we love about death–and there are many (see part one, two, and three!). But ...
Culture & Politics
The Jonestown Massacre and the Unclaimed Dead: What Happened to the Jonestown Bodies?
Death is hard enough, but add mass casualties, a controversial figure, and taboo around non-natural forms of death, and the challenge is much ...
