In our latest guest article, author @amyshea_author shares about how a shared interest in cemeteries and advocacy with her father lead to her writing Too Poor to Die talkdeath.com/exploring-ce...
From my Sunday lunchtime visit to West Ham Cemetery 🪦
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The impact of traumatic death on social networks
Our next seminar co-hosted with Bereavement Network Europe featuring Georgie Akehurst
5th March 5pm - 6pm GMT, online.
Free and all welcome
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Whether you’re navigating this vast landscape for the first time or looking to better understand the options available, knowing the terminology and rhetoric can be a generative first step.
From hospice care and MAID, to alkaline hydrolysis and sky burial, and disinterment and survivor guilt, there are a lot of phrases, titles, and acronyms for each branch of end of life and death care.
Death care practices and funeral rituals have been around for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that there is an entire lexicon of terms related to these landscapes.
As the group collaborates on a special project—a crochet wall hanging for the hospice unit—their story becomes one of redemption, transformation, and the enduring power of human connection.
Together, they lead a community of men who defy stereotypes about life behind bars, finding purpose and connection through caregiving and creativity.
‘Stitch & Time’ portrays how two incarcerated men serving life sentences forge an extraordinary friendship through an unexpected act of compassion: starting a crochet group to make warm items for fellow inmates in hospice care.
We hope you can join us for a special screening, panel discussion, and Q&A of Stitch & Time (2025) on March 26 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT
However, memorial reefs may also bring up complicated questions around access and ritual. Are we reframing personal memorialization as environmental activism? talkdeath.com/resting-in-t...
Memorial reefs are an alternative deathcare practice that gets to the core of what it means to be remembered as part of a living ecosystem. Memorial reefs reflect the current shift in ecological deathcare away from conventional ceremonies and cremation rituals.
In North America, interest in green burial practices has grown significantly over the last decade. There are many ecological products and services to help us honor our loved ones. One example of a sustainable, nature-connected practice is the memorial reef.
In our latest opinion piece, guest writer Christa Ovenell explores how she came to see the good in the polarizing practice of embalming- talkdeath.com/embalming-is...
Maher Tarabishi was detained in October during a scheduled check-in at an ICE facility.
He was the primary caretaker of his son, who died last week.
The family is seeking Maher's release so he can attend his son's funeral.
ICE reportedly denied the request.
Unimaginable cruelty.
All death is political. How we live defines how we die and the structures forged to control and kill one are used against all.
This is what is meant when you hear ‘none of us are free until all of us are free.’
Césaire argued that by dehumanising the other, they dehumanise themselves.
This is to say, the way a government kills groups viewed as ‘others’ they will also use to kill their ‘own.’
With an Imperial boomerang, the manners in which regimes and systems of power enact violence against and sanction the deaths of one group can and will be used against their other populations as well.
The Imperial boomerang is defined as the theory that “governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.”
Remembrance gifts and sympathy gifts can be a meaningful way to offer comfort during a difficult time. But they can also be challenging to shop for and there are some important factors to which you will need to be sensitive. Check out our guide with tips and suggestions talkdeath.com/unique-memor...
TalkDeath’s Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 – WINNERS ANNOUNCED! We’re thrilled to announce the winners!!
We hope that taking a moment to cherish one another and ground in the good can inspire hope, resilience, and strength 🌹🌹🌹🌹 talkdeath.com/best25/
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When the dead visit you in dreams it isn’t always pleasant 😂
Fruma-Sarah from Fiddler on the Roof is nothing less than iconic. What are some of your favorite ghosts and spectres on screen?
From Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
What do you want your obituary to say? What kind of life do you hope is reflected in those words? How do you want to be remembered?
What are you burying in 2025? What are you letting die at the end of this calendar year?
Image: Vasilisa at the Hut of Baba Yaga by Ivan Bilibin
