Women & Death – A picture post
In honor of International Women's Day, please enjoy this collection of art depicting Women with Death through the ages. Magdalena...
Live on Kaddish Podcast!
The Aramaic word "Kaddish" (קדיש) generally refers to the "Mourners' Kaddish", one of the mourning prayer in the Jewish religious...
Mother's Day
As some of you already know, this past year I have been working as a hospice volunteer and a death doula. It has been a challenging,...
Monday Mourning - Gustave Doré
Remembering the life and work of famous 19th century artist Gustave Doré
Death in Photochrom
he vast majority of the images in the photochrom collection are of historical monuments like the Statue of Liberty and natural sights like t
Of flowers and corpses
This weekend, an intense smell enveloped New York Botanical Garden visitors (and another such event just took place in Washington, DC)....
Thanatography Pop-Up Art Show!
Fourth Annual Pop-up Art Show featuring art installations and vending by: Connie Appletree Anthony Fasano Robert Kraiza Rebecca Reeves...
Offering Condolences
One of the reasons it is so hard for people to know what to say is that they aren’t familiar with grief in the same way. They may not...
Thanatography Thursday Memorial: C. R. Travis (ca. 1860s -1940s)
Through the years I have collected a number of calling cards or cartes de visite of people I wish I could have known. Their likenesses...
On the Night My Mother Died
On the night my mother died, it snowed. I got the call from the hospital, and drove through the flake-laden darkness to her hospice room...
