Death and the Maiden

Tag: Afterlife

  • Death Becomes Her: Marilyn Monroe’s Posthumous Career

    Ruth Penfold-Mounce tells us how it can pay (literally) to be a celebrity in death. Companies may choose the immortalised over the high maintenance to be the face of their brand. Marilyn Monroe is a shining example of this. She has her own perfume line, appears on all kinds of…

  • Until Death Us Do Part

    My Death and the Maiden pieces are little love poems about what might happen to the non-physical “us” after we die. I like to think of the best parts of us  – LOVE – persisting when our meat and bones are no more.