Category Archives: Death Professions
Book: What the Dead Know
True crime aficionados know that medical examiners, like the late great Dr. Donald Mallard (Ducky) on NCIS, talk to the dead and the dead talk back. It is not unusual when watching an episode of NCIS to hear Ducky, or … Continue reading
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Books: All the Living and the Dead
When I think of people who work with the dead, I think of people who work in funeral homes, including funeral directors and embalmers, police detectives and that’s about it. However, in her entertaining book All the Living and the … Continue reading
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Balanced and Sane
Note: This was written as part of my coursework in Thanantology at Marian University. African American Homegoing celebrations are a time of tears and laughter. As Isiah Owens, a NYC Funeral Home Director, said, “Death and funerals have kept African … Continue reading
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Academic: Black Funeral Directors and Civil Rights
Link: Black Funeral Directors and Civil Rights Despite being legally freed by the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1963, African Americans were still in economic and social bondage after the Civil War. In the years immediately following the Civil War, … Continue reading
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Women, Money, and Death
The medical field would like you to believe that it is all about healing and doing good for patients; however, even as far back as the European Witch Hunts in the 1500 and 1600s, it was at least partially about … Continue reading
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Dead White Girls
Note: This was a course assignment for Death and the Maiden I will confess upfront that I am a devotee of crime shows. I watch NCIS, FBI, and the Law and Orders. I’ve also been known to binge watch Cold Case and other shows during … Continue reading
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Academic: Mystics and Modern Similarities
Note: This was a class assignment for Death and the Maiden Life is bookended by two great spiritual and physical transitions: birth and death. And it is women who tend to these passings. It is women who experience the quickening … Continue reading
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