Tag: Life

• Rachel The Film

  Karen Anstee is weeks away from the filming of Rachel. A short film about the complex relationships between love, death, family and religion. As writer and director, Karen shares insight into what inspired the project as well as some of the beautiful locations the production team will be shooting at. Ultimately, Rachel is an exploration of the…

  Death and the Maiden

  30/05/2016

  Guest Post

  Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Rituals, Experiences, Film, Grief, Jewish, Jewish Culture, Life, Loss, Love, Rachel The Film, Religion, Script Writing, Story, Tradition, Tragedy

• The Light Witch

  Photographer Courtney Brooke creates a haunting visual poetry rich in the feminine ties to nature & spirituality. Her images capture a beautifully bleak moment through stunning landscape in a dream like world. With influences such as witchcraft, the romantics, mother earth and death, Brooke explores what it is to exist in a human form.

  Death and the Maiden

  07/03/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Female, Female Identity, Humanity, Life, Photography, Romance, Spirituality, The Light Witch, Time, Visual

• On The Street With Saint Death In Tepito, Mexico

  Dr Andrew Chesnut is author of the only book on Saint Death in both Mexico & the US. Here he shares the experience of attending The Santa Muerte rosary service held in Tepito, Mexico City’s most notorious barrio. This is the signature public ritual of the burgeoning cult of the skeleton saint. Accompanied by talented…

  Death and the Maiden

  15/02/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Bony Lady, Creativity, Cult, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Devotees, Experiences, Life, Mexico, Photography, Portable Altar, Rosary Service, Saint Death, Santa Muerte, Shrine, Skeleton Saint, Tepito, Toni Francois, Virgin Mary

• “I think I’d like to change into a sunflower most of all”

  Death & the Maiden’s co-founder Lucy Talbot sees Harold & Maude as the ultimate death positive film. Originally released in 1971, the film was a box office flop. Only in the 1980s did it begin to profit and build a cult following. The lessons that Countess Mathilda Chardin has for young Harold Chasen will change his…

  Death and the Maiden

  10/01/2016

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Film, Life, Life Cycle, Symbolism, Teachings

• Death brought us together

  Death is the kind of thing that sneaks up on you, even when you think you are prepared, and renders you speechless and lost—not knowing what to do next or how to act. In that situation, having a caring, knowledgeable person to sit with your loved one when you are exhausted, to help you learn…

  Death and the Maiden

  14/12/2015

  Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Doula, Doulas, Doulas of Death, Dying, Experiences, INELDA, Life, Life Cycle, Loss, Preparation

• 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