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Our Monthly Tip: A Heartwarming Gift for a Grieving Friend – The Memory Jar
Start the year with intention: Give a grieving friend a year of meaningful memories
Our Tip of the Month: The beginning of a new year often brings promise and hope. But for someone you love who is grieving, it can also feel heavy. They might need a little extra support to face the months … Continue reading
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Revisiting The American Way of Death: Jessica Mitford’s Exposé of the Funeral Industry
Re-reading Mitford’s classic on death, dignity and profiteering
Gleefully, Jessica Mitford exposes the funeral industry in The American Way of Death Revisited, a smart, biting work of book-length reportage. First published in 1963, she updated the text in 1996 shortly before her death, leaving readers with a final … Continue reading
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Is ‘Death Tech’ Going to Change How We Approach End of Life?
Death is a part of life. Will new technology help us to face that?
In 2024, Crunchbase announced that investment in death-related startups increased remarkably over the past few years. As a relatively new sector to be disrupted, it’s understandable why startups want to enter this niche market, as the end-of-life industry is expected … Continue reading
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“Field of Dreams” by Phil Alden Robinson
This classic sports movie is a surprisingly insightful look at life and death through the lens of the American pastime, baseball.
“Field of Dreams,” the sports fantasy film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, might not be explicitly about death — but it certainly presents an inspiring perspective on it. As the film opens we meet Ray, a struggling farmer played by … Continue reading
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Has Death Gone Disney? Former Disney Star Sparks Controversy Over New AI App — Or Grief Trap?
Calum Worthy advertised his new AI app, sparking fear and outrage with a video that showed a family using it to speak to an AI avatar of a grandma who had died
In reflecting on the promo video for his new app that disturbed many on November 11, it’s fitting that Calum Worthy is a former Disney star. The video, which went viral, triggered a flat-out rejection of the digital resurrection as … Continue reading
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Mike Egan, a Visual Artist and Funeral Director, Tackles the Poetry and Reality of Death Through Art
Becoming a funeral director served as “a stepping stone” for Egan, an artist who places death at the center of his work and helps his audience find closure.
First inspired by the oeuvre of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the tattooed Pittsburgh native depicts death as colorful and graphic because his work is really about life — death being inseparable from it — and a catalyst to live it fully. As … Continue reading
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