A gathering of death related links that I have encountered in the past month or so. From somber to hilarious, from informative to creepy, here’s a snippet of things that have been reported on or journaled about related to matters of death & dying & mortality.

💀 Dhruvi Acharya’s new work explores the journey of reconstructing the self after loss.

💀 Little Miss Funeral: Lauren LeRoy reflects on her experiences in a male dominated industry and on why her job is so important.

💀 Shopping for the Afterlife in China

💀 A Daughter Reflects On Her Mother’s Fight For A Medically-Assisted Death.

💀 How Quakers Cope with Death

💀 After escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11, Stephen Milller left Wall Street to become a professional obituary writer.

💀 What It Feels Like to Die: Science is just beginning to understand the experience of life’s end.

💀 The funeral business? Eternally healthy. But finding younger mortuary workers is a challenge.

💀 Is 2016 the year of the celebrity death? An update.

💀 Morbid Curiosity is a card game about death. Part trivia, part conversation it offers an intriguing and delightfully morbid evening with friends.

💀 The Sobering Thing Doctors Do When They Die

💀 Life, The Universe And Everything: Five Things I Learnt At A Death Cafe

…and speaking of Death Cafe, I have just facilitated my fourth and final Death Cafe Orlando event. It was a lively, yet bittersweet gathering, but I can’t be too sad, for I have passed the torch to some truly fantastic folks, and in the meantime, I am gearing up to begin Death Cafe Daytona Beach to serve the Volusia County area! Our first event will be in early 2017 and I couldn’t be more excited.

Previous installments:

Links of the Dead for August 2016

Links of the Dead for July 2016

Links of the Dead for June 2016

Links of the Dead for May 2016

Links of the Dead for April 2016

Links of the Dead for March 2016

Links of the dead for February 2016

Links of the dead for January 2016

Links of the dead for December 2015

Links of the dead for November 2015

Links of the dead for September 2015

Links of the dead for August 2015