Tag: Education

• What The Texas Fetal Remains Ruling Really Means and How You Can Take Action

  Last Monday, after the Texas State Department of Health Services announced the addition of the word ‘cremation’ to their list of approved methods of disposition for the remains of an abortion or miscarriage, headlines were quick to appear suggesting a forced linkage between certain women’s health services and those of the funeral industry. Still in…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/12/2016

  Guest Post

  Abortion, Burial Services, Cremation, Deadmaidens, Death, Education, Emotional, Fetal Remains, Financial, Funeral, Health Care, Law, Legislation, Miscarriage, Pro-Choice, Regulations, Reproductive Justice, Rights, Texas, Women

• The Privilege of a Good Death

  Who is more likely to access a good death? Who is more likely to face a bad death? While tragic accidents tend to be great equalizers, we cannot make whole a death positive movement without addressing how privilege grants likelier access to a good death, and how oppression can position someone more likely to face…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/11/2016

  Guest Post

  active, Activism, Attitudes, Caitlin Doughty, Deadmaidens, Death Positive, Education, Good Death, Medical, Missing Women, Murder, Police, Power, social justice, Support

• A Better Understanding of Death

  Last Thursday Death & the Maiden’s Lucy Talbot attended the Good Funeral Awards, as we had been nominated for the “Most Significant Contribution to the Understanding of Death” award 2016. Here Sarah and Lucy (the Maidens) reflect on the values at the core of their mission and introduce to you the other nominees in the…

  Death and the Maiden

  12/09/2016

  Maiden Post

  Acknowledgement, Art, Bereavement, Celebtration, Challenges, Change, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Education, Experiences, Funeral, Grief, Major Contribution To The Understanding Of Death, New Approaches, Nominations, Recognition, The Good Funeral Awards

• To Be, Or Not To Be A Mortician?

  Whether it has been your lifelong desire. Your recently discovered calling. Or just something you came across this morning on Buzzfeed, you are all probably wondering one thing. Just how the heck do I go about becoming a mortician? Well, the wonderful Amber Carvaly of Undertaking LA is here to tell you.

  Death and the Maiden

  01/02/2016

  Guest Post

  Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Dying, Education, Embalmer, Experiences, Funeral Director, Funeral Industry, Identity, Inspiration, Law, Mortician, Mortuary School, Undertaking LA

• The Winter of Our Lives

  Death & the Maidens’ own Lucy Talbot talks with Dr Monica Williams-Murphy about her role as Emergency Medicine Physician, the experiences that led her to write the wonderful It’s OK to Die and travel across America educating and advocating for a better approach to death and dying. Explaining why we all need to prepare for the…

  Death and the Maiden

  07/06/2015

  Book Club, Interview, Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Change, Deadmaidens, Death, Doctors, Dying, Dying Matters, Education, End of Life, Experiences, Gender Roles, Good Death, Grief, Holistic Approaches, Hospice, Its OK to Die, Life, Life Cycle, Medical Practice, Medicine, Monica Williams-Murphy, Nature, Palliative Care, Preparation, Seasons, Society, Sprituality, Winter

• A Family Connection

  Social Historian, Sarah Hayes is the Collections and Exhibitions Manager at Newman Brothers Coffin Works in Birmingham. Discovering she had an ancestor working in the funeral trade in Birmingham over 150 years ago, and then of her daughter living on Fleet Street, just ten doors down from what was to become Newman Brothers Coffin Works is almost…

  Death and the Maiden

  13/04/2015

  Guest Post

  Ancestory, Birmingham, Burial, Business, Coffin Works, Coffins, Deadmaidens, Education, Family, Heritage, History, Industry, Museum, Newman Brothers, Objects, Trade