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.

This time last year: Links of the Dead {November 2015}

💀 You Can Embalm Dead Bodies In This Funeral Home Video Game

💀 These Photos Show How People Are Dying Around The World

💀 Imagined Afterlives: Death in Classic Fantasy

💀 Evi Numen, Death Doula

💀 Patton Oswalt Opens Up About How His Wife Died

💀 Scientifically, What’s the Best Way to Die (Without Killing Yourself)?

💀 What I learned about dying from those who work in the funeral industry

💀 The hidden part of the internet where the grieving find solace by sharing pictures of loved ones

💀 “The Art of Dying”, a virtual & augmented reality art show

💀 ‘Grief is so overpowering – it consumes you’: The Guardian readers on death and dying

💀 Glimpses of the Afterlife in Swoon’s New Installation

💀 The Surprising Number of Middle-Aged White Men Who Think About Faking Their Own Deaths

💀 Feminists are redefining culture’s broken relationship with mortality

💀 Oh, cool. Facebook is saying we’re all dead

💀 The corpses that changed my life | Caitlin Doughty | TEDxVienna

💀 Immortal prose: how writers deal with death

💀 Revisiting America’s Dead in Posthumous Portraits from the 19th Century

💀 Amber Carvaly on why politics, social justice and the death positive movement are inseparable

💀 A Time To Mourn Without a Place to Pray

💀 Defying Morbidity: Tales From a Central Pennsylvania Funeral Home. Patricia Lundy talks with her grandmother about what it was like to live so intimately close to the dead.