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The Importance of Black Feminine Beautification Rituals for Funerals in American Religion

Maya Williams — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:29:39 +0000

In the United States, Black communities have not always been granted the right to honor or memorialize their dead. In Clint Smith’s account of visiting plantations and other landmarks related to slavery, How the Word is Passed, he outlines how Black people during slavery weren’t allowed marked graves, weren’t allowed to have funerals at night–even though that was sacred in most African religious traditions–, and that the majority of American tax dollars went towards Confederate memorials over Black memorials from post-emancipation to the present day. The Importance of Black Feminine Beautification Rituals for Funerals in American Religion In Caitlin Doughty’s […]

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What Death Care Can Learn From Disability Justice

TalkDeath — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:18:06 +0000

Disability Justice’s approach can provide death care with the necessary tools to reckon with the complex and overlapping issues faced at the end-of-life.

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Careers in Death Care: A Day in the Life of a Caretaker of an Abandoned Cemetery

TalkDeath — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:43:00 +0000

Mount Moriah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery, hosting 150,000 burials and sprawling over hundreds of acres across Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Since it was established in 1855, the undulating hills of Mount Moriah Cemetery have been an inclusive burial place for many communities in Philadelphia. Mount Moriah Cemetery readily welcomed all races and incomes, and adapted to and respected the changing and differing interment needs of its diverse communities, accommodating US military lots, Muslim burials, and communal plots. After Mount Moriah Cemetery was abandoned by its owners, community members came together to care for Pennsylvania’s largest cemetery. The […]

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Is Death Doula Certification Really Worth it?

TalkDeath — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:59:21 +0000

A death doula provides non-medical support, guidance, and assistance to individuals who are dying and those around them leading up to, during, or after a death. Death doulas, who are also referred to as end-of-life doulas, death midwives, death companions, and end-of-life companions to name a few, have existed for centuries around the world- but over the last half a decade they’ve garnered a lot of public traction and attention. With this growing interest in death doula practices, and careers, more training programs have become available- including death doula ‘certifications.’ We examine some of the arguments for and against death […]

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Designing Grief Work: An Interview with Grief Doula, Meg Wade

TalkDeath — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:56:12 +0000

Meg Wade is the Grief Doula at Larkspur Conservation, Tennessee’s first nature preserve for natural burial.

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