Tag: Private

• Prince Deserved a Good Death

  

  Two years on, Caroline Reilly reflects on Prince’s death. Looking back at her own experiences of pain and prescription medication, she finds a clearer picture of this ephemeral man and her heart aches for the way he died, enraged at how badly society failed him both when he was living and after he died.

  Death and the Maiden

  21/04/2018

  Caroline Reilly

  2016, America, Celebrity, Celebrity Death, Death, Drugs, Good Death, Legend, Medical, Music, Pain, Perscription Medication, Prince, Private, Public

• The East End funeral

  “No Cockney ritual is more distinctive—or so redolent with elegy, loss and change, themes of a dying culture.” (Economist)

  Death and the Maiden

  30/03/2015

  Guest Post

  Artist, Bereavement, Change, Cockney, Culture, Deadmaidens, Debate, East End, Experiences, Funeral, Funeral Selfies, Future, Hearse, History, Loss, Moment, Photography, Private, Public, Ritual, Social Media, Tradition

• Women in the Mourning

  

  Author of The Undertaker’s Daughter, Kate Mayfield is here to take us back in time. A time when women were not public figures in the funeral industry but played important roles ‘behind the scenes’ at her father’s funeral home, Kate’s childhood home.

  Death and the Maiden

  16/02/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Experiences, Funeral, Funeral Home, Gender Roles, Memoir, Private, Public, Society, Undertaker, Women, Writer