Tag: Mortuary

• 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

• Recording the Diseased & the Deceased: A Brief Look at the work of a Medical Photographer

  Anni Skilton chose to pursue a career photographing the medically curious, the diseased and the deceased. Here she shares her experiences in various hospital departments, up close and personal capturing the incredible. An inevitable part of Anni’s job involves working with those at end-of-life as well as taking photographs postmortem.

  Death and the Maiden

  27/07/2015

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Career, Deadmaidens, Death, Diagnostics, Diseased, History, Medical, Medical Curiosities, Medical Illustration, Medical Photographer, Mortuary, Photography, Post-Mortem, Post-Mortem Photography, Specimens, Surgery, Wellcome

• The Corpse Brides

  If death is most often anthropomorphised into a foreboding, grinning male does it not make sense that his companion is female? The current ‘trend’ for women in the death industry is not a trend, then, but merely an influx of women taking their rightful place back at death’s side and, once again, becoming the guardians…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/03/2015

  Guest Post

  Academic, Anatomical Pathology Technology, Barts Pathology Museum, Business, Career, Carla Valentine, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Gender Roles, Industry, Inspire, Mortuary, Pathology, Trends, Victorian, Women

• Death Under Glass

  The presence of a microscope in the morgue or the office of a forensic scientist seems to be a symbol to impress upon audiences the seriousness of the science being performed in that episode. But viewers are never shown “the pathologist’s view of the world”, so to speak – exactly what does the doctor see…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/02/2015

  Guest Post

  Anatomy, Art, Artist, Beauty, Career, Colour, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Death Under Glass, Diagnosis, Disease, Forensic, Industry, Inspire, Medical, Microscope, Morgue, Mortuary, Pathology, Post-Mortem