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57 episodes
since June 19, 2018
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On this week’s episode, I FINALLY talk to my friend Katrina Spade, the pioneer of natural organic reduction, also known as human composting, in the United States, and the founder of Recompose, a Seattle-based funeral home that focuses exclusively on natural organic reduction. Katrina and I first me…

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Today we're talking about something that sits in closets, on mantels, and even on kitchen counters across the country: urns holding the cremated remains of people we love, often with no plan for where they will finally rest. By one estimate, 25 million homes in the United States have an urn in them…
Today we're talking about something that sits in closets, on mantels, and even on kitchen counters across the country: urns holding the cremated remains of people we love, often with no plan for where they will finally rest. By one estimate, 25 million homes in the United States have an urn in them…
Today, more than 90% of mortuary school students are first generation funeral directors. Three out of four of them are women. And increasingly, there are people in mortuary school who are in the middle of their lives, coming to this work as a second career because something about it called to them.…
On this week's episode, Caitlin Doughty discusses the most recent scandal in the funeral industry and what regulatory structures could be used to prevent this from happening again. On August 7th, Chicago police, acting on a tip, entered a funeral home on the Far South Side called South Chicago Chap…
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Anna Jordan. Anna is a funeral director and a certified life cycle celebrant and a member of the board of the Home Funeral Alliance. I’ve had the opportunity to work with Anna on a couple of projects with the Home Funeral Alliance. For the past couple of years, a …
If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you’ve heard from a lot of what I’ll characterize as “progressive” or “new” entrants in the death care space. We’ve had episodes on green burial, death doulas, natural organic reduction, home funerals, and more. The conventional wisdom that I he…
Anatomical dissection is a fundamental part of medical education. In this episode, medical student Emma Sherman walks us through the use and treatment of donor bodies in medical education in the United States.
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