Is there a difference between the two? As it turns out, yes. Clifford A. Pickover,…
Category: Death and Mourning
A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets book Poems of…
Last week I finished my online course “Investigating the Victorians” through Oxford’s Department of Continuing…
Featured image is of Laurel Hill Cemetery by Loren Rhodes of Cemetery Travel. The cemetery on…
I love holidays because they make an otherwise normal week something special, and also allow…
Featured Image: The Thanatos Archive’s website banner. The Archive’s mission is to “collect, preserve, and…
Featured image: Highgate Cemetery founded in 1839. Photo via http://notesfromcamelidcountry.net/2013/07/21/highgate-cemetery-a-victorian-valhalla/. Spring will soon be upon us – the…
How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole:…
shroud noun 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead…
I am about a quarter of the way through Alexander Chee’s new epic, The Queen…
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