Tag: Ritual

• Playing with death – how the ‘Goodbye-box’ helps children grieve

  

  Rosalie Kuyvenhoven runs Rituals Today, creating meaningful and relevant ceremonies. Her blog is full of innovation and ideas, here she shares Bonnie Jansen’s DAG Box: inspired by a non-directive approach to play therapy, in which children take the lead.

  Death and the Maiden

  20/05/2018

  Guest Post

  Bereavement, Bonnie Jansen, Children, Cremation, DAG Box, Funeral, Goodbye Box, Grief, Healing, Mourning, Play, Ritual, Rituals Today, Rosalie Kuyvenhoven

• Eden

  In the Borderland, the alien presence can be felt everywhere. This week our friend and the founder of Foolish People, John Harrigan, takes us on a journey to the shores of Eden. Away from the fixed and familiar, into a state of transition. One of suffering, creativity and truth. Grief is a poison bullet. Only with…

  Death and the Maiden

  26/09/2016

  Guest Post

  Alzheimer, Art, Borderland, Care, Celebration, Creation, Creativity, David Bowie, Deadmaidens, Death, Dying, Emotion, Experiences, Foolish People, Funeral, Grief, John Harrigan, Loss, Love, Mother, Ritual, Suffering, Truth

• 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

• Of Divine Beauty & Hidden Grief

  Nicholas Johnson is the artist behind Divine Excess, an online shop that sells bespoke pieces inspired by Mexican folk art and iconography. Here we find out more about the influences that inspire these intricate creations. From the saintly to the cult of Santa Muerte, Nick also shares some examples of his work whereby femininity is…

  Death and the Maiden

  01/08/2016

  Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Death Rituals, Divine Excess, Experiences, Grief, History, Holy Death, Iconography, Inspiration, Love, Memento Mori, Mexico, Religion, Ritual, Saint Death, Santa Muerte

• The Little Book of Burial

  

  Krista Amira Calvo takes us on a journey across the globe with The Little Book of Burial. A playful hands on experience that sheds light on different cultures and their burial practices. Exploring the evolution of burial and some rituals that are no longer practiced but still very iconic and recognisable to us. This delightful…

  Death and the Maiden

  06/06/2016

  Krista Amira Calvo

  anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Burial, Cemetery, Culture, Death, Death Customs, Discussing Death, Dying, Egypt, Funeral, Hindu, History, Krista Amira Calvo, Little Book of Burial, Mourning, Mummification, Native American, Practice, Religion, Ritual, Sky Burial, World History

• Rest In Pieces

  To celebrate the paperback release of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, author Bess Lovejoy is giving away a signed copy of her book. Rest in Pieces catalogs stories from the age of antiquity to today, tracing the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death and connecting the lives of the famous deceased…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/02/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Bess Lovejoy, Book, Burial, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalming, Eva Peron, Evita, Famous Corpses, Female Identity, Gender Roles, History, Lady of Argentina, Rest In Pieces, Ritual, Writer

• 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

• Perfume of the Dead

  S. Elizabeth discusses the scent of death. Perfumes, oils, and other fragrances played a key role in the process of mummifying a body for burial, as well as denoting what status the person held in life. Scents of loss, grief, passage, and remembrance -perfumers and artistic noses have certainly attempted to create  fragrances based around these timeless…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/05/2015

  Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Fragrance, Funeral, Lush, Marketing, Perfume, Poetic, Products, Remembrance, Ritual, Scent, Seduction, Sex, Women

• Tears Become Ideas

  In some places, the ability to sing or recite ritual laments became part of a feminine portfolio of skills, along with cooking, spinning, mending and cleaning. Here, author Sarah Murray shares an adaptation from her wonderful book Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead to give us insight…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/04/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Ceremonies, China, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Gender Roles, Greece, Grief, History, Ireland, Laments, Mourning, Music, Ritual, Russia, Women, Writer

• 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