Tag: Choice

• A Celebration of Death

  Festival of Ian Smith, 28th October – 23rd December, 2017 at Edinburgh’s Summerhall is set to be an eclectic mix of art, music, performance and installation – all investigating, challenging, confronting or celebrating death. The festival explores why we often find it difficult to talk about death in our society, and how art and artists…

  Death and the Maiden

  07/11/2016

  Guest Post

  Angie Dight, Art, Choice, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Positive, Edinburgh, Engagement, Exhibition, Festival, Festival of Ian Smith, Funeral, Good Grief, Grief, Legacy, Loss, Mischief La Bas, Society

• Talk is cheap. Burials are not: Why only telling people what you want for your funeral is not enough

  Amber Carvaly is back on Death & the Maiden today to discuss a subject very close to her heart. As one half of Undertaking LA, Amber encourages anybody and everybody to talk about death, dying and their wishes for the end of life. Although this is important (and she makes clear it absolutely is) Amber…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/08/2016

  Guest Post

  America, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Change, Choice, Considerations, Conversation, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, DIY Funeral, Funeral, Honesty, Modern Funeral, Money, Natural Burial, Planning, Ritual, Tradition, Undertaking LA, USA

• Sleeping Beauty

  A beautiful work of fiction for you this week from Angie McLachlan. Capturing the essences of a myriad of deaths, feelings and experiences, plucked from her 25 years serving families & caring for the dead through the sacred art and science of Embalming. Making clear this is more than just a job, Angie delves into the…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Achievement, Anubis, Art, Beauty, Career, Change, Choice, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalmer, Embalming, Emotion, Experiences, Fairytales, Family, Fiction, Grief, History, Loss, Mortuary, Science, Skill

• Living Out Questions of Death

  It was sudden, unexpected. The naked bleakness of a dead woman – my mother – in her bathtub still haunts me; well it surely would. It is a memory that has the quality and starkness that gets etched into one. There are good memories of her death too – that she was picked up by…

  Death and the Maiden

  02/11/2015

  Guest Post

  Career, Change, Choice, Deadmaidens, Death, Doulas, Dying, Dying Matters, Embalmer, Embalming, End of Life Care, Ethics, Experiences, Hospice, Ichabod Smith, Loss, New Approaches, Red Plait Interpretation LLP, Soul Midwives, Teaching, Tradition, Training, Workshops

• Saying Goodbye the Alternative Way

  Alternative funerals are unique to the deceased person and a tribute to the individual person rather than to a mass followed religion. Themed funerals, green and natural funerals, Gothic and Steampunk funerals, Rock ‘n’ Roll funerals, biker funerals and any other kinds of funerals which centre on the life of the person, and break with…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/09/2015

  Guest Post

  Alternative Funerals, Celebrate, Choice, Coffins, Creativity, Deadmaidens, Funeral Photography, Funerals, Gothic, Grief, Individual, Mourning, Natural Burial, Remembrance, Ritual, Steam Punk, Themes, Tradition