Personalizing funerals helps answer this question: What would you want people to remember at your funeral? Your career? Your sense of humor? Your favorite […]

For many families, cremation marks the end of a practical process. But it can also be the beginning of an important emotional one. As cremation has become the […]

Death Conversation Pioneers Met in London to Rethink Funerals, Grief and End-of-Life Planning  International group calls for better conversations, meaningful […]

Grief isn’t something we “get over.” It’s something we learn to carry. After exploring different types of grief in the previous two episodes on […]

What do mushrooms have to do with mortality? Potentially, quite a lot. On a recent episode of The Doyenne of Death Podcast, I spoke with Donna Gareis, founder […]

Grief refuses to fit neatly into a box. Some people cry openly. Others throw themselves into work. Some anticipate a loved one’s death long before it […]

Grief is one of the most universal human experiences, and one of the most misunderstood. People often expect grief to follow a predictable path, complete with […]

Ask people what kind of funeral they would want, and sooner or later someone will say, “Give me a Viking funeral.” The image is instantly recognizable: a […]

Funeral shopping? You must watch episode six of the Mortality Movies TV series! Most consumers spend more time researching a new television or family vacation […]

A poem about what you might see in the grocery store. As part of the creative nonfiction writing class I took at the American University of Paris this summer, […]