The Order of the Good Death

Death is everywhere.

Libraries and archives – like the stone and bronze statues that we might traditionally categorize as monuments and memorials – are sites where memories are preserved, honoured, altered, or even deliberately removed.

Teaching about death and dying is not for the faint of heart.

Reader, he died.

Larkspur Conservation at Taylor Hollow, Nashville, TN I met with Jean shortly after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Several years ago there was an article about the trial of Josef Fritzl, the German man who kept his daughter locked in the basement for 24 years.

Image via The Spectacle of Illusion, published by D.A.P.

We’ve all seen it: the way people—especially adults—will sidestep any conversation about death like it’s an obstacle they’d rather never face.

At the Order of the Good Death, we care about your future corpse.

In the ethnographic study Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless, anthropologist Robert Desjarlais considers the experience of homelessness through various lenses, including culture, language, health care, and political agency.

Thomas Wood, born in Fairfax, Virginia, was twenty-two when he enlisted in the U.S.