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 2016}

💀 Don’t Let Anyone Tell You You’re Not Allowed To Be Upset About A Celebrity Death

💀 Artist works to capture and preserve cadavers

💀 5 places: Where you can’t die

💀 The ‘Maternal Bereavement Effect’ Explains Why So Many Parents Die After Their Children

💀 Obituaries For Teenage Girls If They Actually Died When They Say They’re Dying

💀 How to Create an Iconic Jaguar Hearse

💀 “Mirrors With Memories”: Why Did Victorians Take Pictures of Dead People?

💀 The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage

💀 Mysterious Ancient Egypt ‘pot burials’ stand as metaphor for rebirth in the afterlife

💀 On Death, Patriarchy & the Anti-Choice Movement

💀 Taking Care Of The Dead At Home, And Other Matters Of Mortality

💀 To dig or not to dig? The ethics of exhumation

💀 The First Cryonic Preservation Took Place Fifty Years Ago Today

💀 The Grieving Need You Most After the Funeral

💀 Sometimes Nature is Morbid. That’s Why There’s #BestCarcass

💀 How to Eat Like a Gravedigger

💀 For the Forgotten African-American Dead

💀 This Kid-Friendly Explanation Of Death Will Change How You Think About The World

💀 Tracing The Remains: Sabrina Small and Caitlin McCormack at the Mütter Museum

💀 Death Without Darkness: A mortician proposes a redesign for the crematory

💀 Artist Jaime Erin Johnson explores places where one encounters life & death, growth & decay