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.

More reading: Links of the Dead {June 2016}

💀 When Your Loved One’s Last Wish Was ‘No Funeral’

💀 ‘Story of Flowers’ Tells an Epic Animated Tale of Life and Death

💀 A Controversial Trial to Bring the Dead Back to Life

💀 Why does cinema still demonise grieving mothers?

💀 This Farmer Wants To Give Animals A Better Life — And Death

💀 A Guide to Architects’ Mundane and Monumental Graves

💀 When a Pet Dies, Helping Children Through the ‘Worst Day of Their Lives’

💀 Why Trips To The Cemetery Aren’t Just For ‘Big Fat Goths’

💀 Feminism, politics and death: my mum died the night Hillary Clinton lost

💀 One Year After the Pulse Massacre, an Orlando Group Confronts LGBT Death Head-On

💀 Even in death, everyone is striving for that perfect no-makeup makeup look.

💀 Watching funerals streamed online offers a new way to deal with death

💀 What to Know About Donating Your Body to Science

…and finally, A Sad Farewell to the Man Who Started The Death Cafe Movement, Jon Underwood.