Death in the Afternoon

The author of history's most influential piece of animal mourning literature had been lost... more

A court case in California could force death doulas to become licensed funeral directors. ... more

Go behind the scenes with Cat Warren, who works with cadaver dogs to find the missing dead... more

From viral trends to new options for your future corpse, Caitlin and Sarah review the best... more

In a space of loss that is already difficult to exist in, we need to do more to understand... more

Mortuary schools began as embalming schools, sponsored by embalming chemical companies. To... more

No matter how long you’ve been working with dead bodies, nothing can prepare you for worki... more

Where would you even start in opening your own green burial ground? After all, every cemet... more

Hot Take: We’re all afraid of death – whether it’s the actual state of being dead one day,... more

Episode Description Our future corpses have more options than ever, with eco-friendly proc... more

Welcome back for Season 3 of the Death in the Afternoon, a podcast from the Order of the G... more

 In this audio preview of her new book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Caitlin is sharing wh... more

Today we're talking corpses as entertainment. Not the idea of a corpse (sorry, horror fans... more

Before zombies became the brain-eating pop culture phenomenon of the Walking (or Living) D... more

Wills, advanced directives, emergency savings accounts – what's not to love?  Ok, we get i... more

The American Civil War left roughly 700,000 men dead and an entire nation devastated. With... more

We know who gets fancy monuments: politicians, military heroes, and so many men on horses.... more

Two Manhattan tragedies, two miles and ninety years apart, that changed government policy ... more

Cremation and burial are all well and good, but why aren't our dead bodies electroplated o... more

You asked for it, deathlings. A bonus episode on the mortuary and embalming scenes in Netf... more

Ring ring. Hello? Who’s there? IT’S YOUR MORTALITY CALLING.   In life, phones make everyth... more

A wisp of white. A voice in the dark. A lamp mysteriously turns on by itself. Few things c... more

Embalming. It sounds like the stuff of horror movies: pump a dead body full of chemicals t... more

Ah, to die, to decompose, to become one with the earth. Most of us accept this as our fate... more

Being in a cult... doesn’t always end well. This week, we confront the questions: Why not ... more

Generally speaking, we like our limbs in context. “The foot bone’s connected to the ankle ... more

Mistakes happen. Cremations happen. But few things capture our morbid imagination like cre... more

In our first episode, we take you on a magical (ok, not always so magical) journey of livi... more

Welcome to your mortality, humans! It's a new podcast called Death in the Afternoon from t... more