"The path that leads someone to a potter’s field as their final resting place is a complex, layered, messy one. Actually, there isn’t just one path, but many, which often begin long before the death bed." www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

THIS FRIDAY Join authors Amy Shea, Evie King, & Beth Winegarner for a thoughtful, necessary dialogue on justice, remembrance, & reimagining how we care for one another through death. Event is free, register at the link:: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

NEW ARTICLE! Author Beth Winegarner reveals the dead who still lie beneath some of San Francisco’s most cherished destinations in her book, “San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History.” www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/left...

It’s official! New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has signed NJ bill A-4085/S-3007 legalizing human composting & expanding options for greener & more meaningful deathcare! Learn more about this and other sustainable forms of deathcare here: www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/gr... 📷 Yumi Yoshida

It’s hungry ghost season and that means it’s time to feed your dead. www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-...

NEW ARTICLE! What happens if you die without family or money? In this excerpt from “Ashes to Admin: Tales from the Caseload of a Council Funeral Officer,” you’ll meet Evie King who is charged with carrying out Section 46 funerals. www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/dead...

Join authors Evie King, Amy Shea, and Beth Winegarner for a powerful conversation on funeral poverty and the stark inequalities that shape how we die and how we’re remembered.

There's an excerpt from my book on the @ordergooddeath.bsky.social site ahead of our free event this month. www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/dead...

Discover how these talented artisans create beautiful and unique eco-friendly coffins, shrouds and urns that celebrate life and honor our loved ones. It's not just about death; it’s about connection, creativity, and remembrance.

For World Photography Day, check out our list of recommended books on death & photography—from post mortem photos, to jazz funerals, & hidden ossuaries www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/bo...

Discover how these talented artisans create beautiful and unique eco-friendly coffins, shrouds and urns that celebrate life and honor our loved ones. It's not just about death; it’s about connection, creativity, and remembrance.

The Order Supports Death Positive Programming on PBS On August 6, 2025 PBS will be premiering a new documentary, The Last Ecstatic Days, an intimate look at a man with brain cancer in search of a community and his hospice doctor who gives up everything to honor his dying wish.

Life after death? A wave of states move to legalize human composting as people seek out funeral practices that better reflect their own values, personalities, traditions and preferences. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Read more about how our Good Death Fellow Finalist, Resting Reef's project to turn cremated remains into underwater memorials has attracted 46 new marine species www.fastcompany.com/91332902/res...

Fashion studies professor, Sherry Haar, designed several funeral garments and textiles as a way to start conversations about green burial practices www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anb9...

The Order Supports Death Positive Programming on PBS On August 6, 2025 PBS will be premiering a new documentary, The Last Ecstatic Days, an intimate look at a man with brain cancer in search of a community and his hospice doctor who gives up everything to honor his dying wish.

A funeral is a ceremony that many may take for granted, but that was not the case for African Americans for a large portion of history in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyuH...

Many of us still cannot bear to talk about death. Even when we know it’s important. Even though we may want to. So why not? And what would we stand to gain if, instead, we learned to speak about dying more openly? www.vox.com/advice/42078...

The history of death masks stretches back millennia, deep into antiquity. Often created for elite members of society as protective armour that could help the deceased to navigate the afterlife or ward off evil spirits. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"Hair has always been as political as the rest of one’s body and skin" -- read "Unruly: Hair, Politics, and Memorial" dilettantearmy.com/articles/unr...

In 1883 four bodysnatchers approached a Philadelphia cemetery to dig up the graves of people who had recently been laid to rest there. Their arrest would lead to the creation of a law that decides the fate of Pennsylvania’s unclaimed dead to this day www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-...

Does the fear of death push people toward authoritarianism, and can greener funeral practices help? www.sower.world/green-burial...

Saw this camera with the phrase “We’re all gonna die, say “Cheese!” on it and was reminded of Susan Sontag’s quote “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality…all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

A researcher and photographer documents the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals www.cnn.com/style/ghana-...

We are thrilled to announce that New Jersey's body composting bill has passed, & is currently awaiting Gov. Murphy's signature, making NJ the 14th state to legalize body composting! pressofatlanticcity.com/news/state-r...

Residents on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, have been blocked from their ancestral cemetery by gates erected by property owners. capitalbnews.org/gullah-geech...

In June we are so honored to hav Dr. Kimberly Acquaviva with us to discuss LGBTQIA+ end-of-life care. Become an Order Member today & get access to all of our upcoming events, an archive of past ones, & SO much more: orderofthegooddeath.com/membership

A Washington teenager who died unexpectedly chose to have his body composted. Although Fritz's death was unexpected his mother Eileen knew that he wanted to donate his organs and be composted because they had open conversations about death as a family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j3O...

Our LGBTQ+ Death Positive Conversation Starter Cards are one of our favorite items in The Order store! Featuring questions that center queer issues & experiences, each pack helps fund our LGBTQ+ End-Of-Life Guide Project! the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/products/lgb...

Anyways, please enjoy my annual PSA about concrete & #gravestones 🪦🏺 blackcatcemeterypreservation.ca/2025/06/17/g...

“I approach end-of-life planning as a form of self-protection. It’s a way of defining who is family to me and who I trust to make decisions on my behalf. It sure as hell isn’t the state or the people I’m related to by blood.” xtramagazine.com/health/queer...

Rhode Island is one step closer to legalizing aquamation and human composting! www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

We’re loving the new video for Leith Ross’ new song, ‘Grieving’, which details a beautiful living wake/funeral 🌸 (a "funeral" that honors the life of a person while they're still living). Watch it here: youtu.be/K_Mbs2ad6jo?...

Propaganda we’re not falling for and neither should you

New @theguardian.com article by our CDAS visiting fellow @mollyconisbee.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Taking action to ensure your end-of-life and death care wishes can be daunting, but we assure you that it can be done, and we’re here to help! www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/en...

☀ Today's weather report is... Our feature article for the month is live! Join our narrative director, @kaittremblay.bsky.social, and our community manager, @astroscout.ca, in our first-ever letter series—this edition's topic: death in games. 📖: tiny.cc/deathingames

1/2 We’re so excited about our May & June Mortal Media Club events! Next week we’ll be talking death positive video games with game dev @gabbydarienzo.com creator of A Mortician’s Tale, & NEW game Seasonala Cemetery!

New Jersey Residents! Want to help support human composting legislation in your state? Please sign up so we can let you know about future calls to action and grassroots mobilization efforts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1/2 We’re so excited about our May & June Mortal Media Club events! Next week we’ll be talking death positive video games with game dev @gabbydarienzo.com creator of A Mortician’s Tale, & NEW game Seasonala Cemetery!

In record time, Georgia becomes the 13th state to pass human composting legislation, expanding eco-friendly care that resonates with a growing number of people who want their final act to be meaningful

Beautiful article about end-of-life connection and agency that I will be thinking about for some time. Highly worth a read.

I am just half way through and in every word there is so much love and beauty. #deathPositivity

Deloy Oberlin didn't know how much time his wife had left, but he knew he wanted to spend their final days together fulfilling her last wish—to have a home funeral www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a1...

The Unbreakable Spirits of Black Gospel During Funerals www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-...

"The school-to-prison pipeline is real, but no one talks about the solitary-to-cemetery pipeline." (cw: suicide) solitarywatch.org/2025/04/25/w...

An Ohio man has petitioned his local township's board to allow him to designate his house as an "indoor" cemetery www.cantonrep.com/story/news/l...

Find a deathcare planning workshop for the Transgender community, classes on cemetery symbolism & Victorian mourning jewelry, a puppet show, a death & arts festival, a feminist obituary writing class and MORE on our Death Positive Events calendar www.orderofthegooddeath.com/events/

We had the BEST time talking education, outreach, inclusivity + green burial with Erica Xavier-Beauvoir at our Mortal Media Club this week. Erica was able to establish a position within their local government to change policies that would allow for green burial 9thstreetjournal.org/2023/11/08/c...

After 10+ years of being on the receiving end of thousands of emails from the general public about death, I can tell you that overwhelmingly, the most FAQ is people asking for details about the decomposition of a person they love