# good death (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover good death. Page: Feed: --- ## [Here Stands Loss: Lessons From Victorian Mourning Culture](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/here-stands-loss-lessons-from-victorian-mourning-culture/) _2026-07-23 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Reader, he died. I’ve devoted my career to death. As a scholar of Victorian disease, I think about death nearly every day, but this did not protect me from the sucker punch of loss. Neither did his slow, prolonged decline, nor my slow, growing awareness of his coming end, like a roller coaster inching to the crest of a hurtling drop. It hit me as I cradled my dog’s dead body: I was 32, a… ## [Earth-Friendly Endings](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/earth-friendly-endings/) _2026-04-22 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Larkspur Conservation at Taylor Hollow, Nashville, TN I met with Jean shortly after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. As I approached her home for the first time, I was greeted by voluminous blue barrels at the bases of the gutters collecting rainwater from a passing storm. An attached hose snaked outwards toward a garden burgeoning into spring. Conservation burial grounds transform… ## [On the Fear of Death](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/on-the-fear-of-death/) _2026-03-18 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Several years ago there was an article about the trial of Josef Fritzl, the German man who kept his daughter locked in the basement for 24 years. When called to testify, Fritzl was asked if he had any friends as an adult. He replied, “I had no friends. You need to nurture friendships and I had no time for that.” Fritzl, for all his monstrosity, was correct. Relationships require constant nurturing… ## [When We Spoke to the Dead](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/when-we-spoke-to-the-dead/) _2026-03-04 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Image via The Spectacle of Illusion, published by D.A.P. Wellcome Library, London. A young girl operating a planchette. Throughout American history, where are women in the public spaces? I don’t mean that in some fancy academic sense. Literally, where are the women? In America, there are over five thousand roads named for George Washington, which makes sense; as a Founding Father and the first… ## [Our Fear of Death is Not An Heirloom We Want to Pass On](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/our-fear-of-death-is-not-an-heirloom-we-want-to-pass-on/) _2026-02-10 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ We’ve all seen it: the way people—especially adults—will sidestep any conversation about death like it’s an obstacle they’d rather never face. They’ll change the subject, make an awkward joke, or walk away altogether. I’ve seen it in my father’s eyes, in the tightness of his jaw when the subject of someone’s death comes up. I’ve heard it in Bobby’s voice when, after years of avoiding it, he… ## [Three Astonishing Take Aways from the American Funeral Preferences Survey](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/three-astonishing-take-aways-from-the-american-funeral-preferences-survey/) _2026-01-28 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ At the Order of the Good Death, we care about your future corpse. We care about helping you accept your death, deciding what you want done with your eventual dead body, and then achieving that choice legally, financially, and logistically. So when, in 2024, Professor Tanya Marsh of Wake Forest Law School asked to partner with the Order to develop questions for an annual survey to document trends… ## [On Bodies and Embodiment](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/on-bodies-and-embodiment/) _2025-09-16 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ In the ethnographic study Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeles s, anthropologist Robert Desjarlais considers the experience of homelessness through various lenses, including culture, language, health care, and political agency. Desjarlais notes how journalists and the media tend to focus on the grotesqueness and the inability of unhoused people to contain their bodily needs and… ## [Left Behind](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/left-behind/) _2025-09-09 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Thomas Wood, born in Fairfax, Virginia, was twenty-two when he enlisted in the U.S. Military on June 3, 1847, to fight in the Mexican-American War. He reenlisted numerous times until the Board of Medical Survey deemed him too worn out to continue serving. He received his final honorable discharge on November 27, 1881. Wood decided to head to San Francisco, even though he didn’t have a home, a job… ## [Dead Strangers and Other Friends](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/dead-strangers-and-other-friends/) _2025-09-03 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ Bereaved families come to councils as their last resort, often ashamed, their grief compounded by feelings of having failed their loved one by not giving them a ‘proper’ funeral. The ‘pauper’s funeral’ terminology of old doesn’t help. Giving rise as it does to anxiety around what the service will look and feel like. This anxiety is partially justified as there is something of a postcode lottery in… ## [Marketplace for AI-Powered Professionals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/JDd20lygYtda) _2025-09-03 · **Sponsored**_ Find professionals who use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude to deliver work faster. ## [The Story of the Unclaimed](https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/article/the-story-of-the-unclaimed/) _2025-01-06 · The Order of the Good Death · The Order of the Good Death_ The story of the unclaimed is, urgently, a story for today. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, an estimated 2 to 4 percent of the 2.8 million people who died every year in the United States went unclaimed—up to 114,000 Americans. This is roughly how many Americans die annually from diabetes. And that number is increasing. In Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United…