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 in or related to the Death Industry recently.

This time last year: Links of the Dead {February 2016}

💀 Why it is now more important than ever for the death positive movement to be political.

💀 Ghost Marriages: Where the Living Wed the Dead

💀 Death Hacker: You’re Going to Die, Here’s How to Deal With It

💀 How the Unrelenting Threat of Death Shapes Our Behavior

💀 The Skeleton Rocker: A Cozy Reminder of Our Mortality

💀 In Europe’s First Forensic Cemetery, Corpses Decompose for Science

💀 Santa Muerte as Religious Resistance

💀 Dealing with debts when someone dies

💀 The Challenge of Identifying The Dead In a Disaster

💀 Grieving Someone You Didn’t Like (because it happens)

💀 A Company Will Press Your Ashes Into A Working Vinyl Album

💀 Diet culture is just another way of dealing with the fear of death.

💀 “Famous last words” and Japanese death poems offer two strikingly different approaches to mortality.

💀 Why the #DeathPositive movement is important for public research

💀 The Year After My Dad’s Death Was the Best of My Life

💀 New technology is forcing us to confront the ethics of bringing people back from the dead

💀 These Elderly DIYers Came To Peace With Death–By Crafting Their Own Coffins

💀 Bad Taste in Funeral Flowers: 1895-1914

💀 Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium

💀 The woman who washes the dead

💀 “The Phone Of The Wind” Connects Both The Living And The Dead