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 {January 2017} | {January 2016}

💀 Feminist Death Work: A History

💀 My therapist died. Is it okay to go to her memorial services?

💀 We’ve got to start talking about grief in the face of deaths that are not beautiful.

💀 Death as Entertainment at the Paris Morgue

💀 ‘The Bright Hour,’ By Nina Riggs And ‘The Art Of Death,’ By Edwidge Danticat

💀 Death Salon with Nuri McBride

💀 How Do We Bury the Writing of the Dead?

💀 Two new books that can help both those in mourning

💀 Smell of death tells undertaker bees it’s time to remove corpses

💀 The new death industry: funeral businesses that won’t exploit grief

💀 Drive-Thru Funeral Home

💀 What to do with the remains of notorious criminals.

💀 WeCroak: An app to remind you that the end is near

💀 Breakfast, Then Death. A piece of short fiction by Claire L. Smith

💀 For the Living, a Donated Face. For the Dead, a Lifelike Replacement.

💀 French YouTube channel, Le Bizarreum, explores death through historical and archaeological cases.

💀 On why writing about grief sometimes means you have to sneak into a defunct cemetery

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