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Many people have written Funeral Consumers Alliance over the years wondering what condition their dead family member might be after years in the ground. Most of us won’t ask these questions in public because onlookers will make snide remarks about how “morbid” that is and how “ewwwww grossss!” we must be to even think of […]

***Trigger Warning: This post contains numerous post-mortem photos of children*** Via Wikipedia: Post-mortem photography was very common in the nineteenth century when “death occurred in the home and was quite an ordinary part of life.”[1] Due to photography being a new medium, it is plausible that “many daguerreotype post-mortem portraits, especially those of infants and young […]

Pop psychology has implied that our grief can one day “heal.”  That one day, we’ll come to a place — after going through an extensive emotional process — where we’re back to normal, as if the brokenness we feel has been mended. In Kubler-Ross’ model, she listed five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. […]

  Today’s guest post is written by Sara LeeAnn Pryde. We lay to rest this soggy cell phone, which was painstakingly assembled by impoverished children early in 2014. Little did he know he would be christened “Simon,” programmed to speak with a British accent, and made to address his owner as “Your Grace” – all […]