This National Poetry Month, please take a look at these incredible poets of marginalized genders whose poetry has a pulse on death in honest, visceral, and beautifully written ways.” - Maya Williams talkdeath.com/five-poetry-...
“Poetry has always had a strong pulse on the human condition. Part of the human condition that is universal is how death will come for all of us...
In the shadows #CemeterySaturday St. Casimir Cemetery, Chicago, IL
I wrote a harrowing ghost story about the horrors of the probate process and @talkdeath.bsky.social was kind enough to publish it! talkdeath.com/the-harrowin...
What details catch your eye in this painting? What draws you in further?
Memento Mori by Jessie Homer French
Oil on canvas, 2022
#art #mementomori #cemeteries
Montreal, join us this Thursday!
Hey, Montreal! TalkDeath is hosting a Death Cafe style event on April 9th. All are welcome.
In our latest guest article, Tanya D. Marsh, breaks down the legal concerns in this case, clarifies common misconceptions, and explains what this means for other death doulas.
If you’re a death doula, or interested in becoming one, you’ve probably been trying to keep up with the legal case concerning the death doula practice of Lauren Richwine, or Death Done Differently.
Parlons de mort!/ Let’s Talk Death!
Open to death care workers and the general public, offering a space to gather and be in community
This is not a grief support group
La Feuille Verte Cafe
9 Avril / April 9
18h30/ 6:30pm
Free but you must RSVP-
www.eventbrite.ca/e/parlons-de...
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 🪦
#cemeteriesofinstagram #cemetery #taphophiles_only
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
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bereavemen....
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.
