Life Before Death: 13 Portraits

***WARNING: This following are portraits of both deceased adults and children***   Here’s an explaining from The Guardian This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the […]

Funerals: Touching is Safe Here

In our culture, touch is too often motivated by 1.)  Desire. 2.)  Demand. Many don’t know how to touch outside of those two categories. There’s a rather new interdisciplinary area of study called haptonomy which explores how to touch outside of the desire and demand categories.  Haptonomy is the study of psycho-tactile communication. Psychologist and […]

A Cake Too Cute to Eat

This from Melonie: When my daughter graduated from PIMS last fall, we threw a “creepy” themed party and this was her cake.  Thought you would appreciate a pic. The following Monday morning, I took leftover cake to work. It consisted of a party platter full of internal organs. No one ate it.  

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