Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
He tweets. He blogs. He embalms. Caleb Wilde is a sixth-generation mortician, working for the family business in small-town Pennsylvania — a Victorian-style funeral home where the only visible ...
WHAT REMAINS? LIFE, DEATH AND THE HUMAN ART OF UNDERTAKING by Rupert Callender (Chelsea Green £20, 336pp) Do you know why the bearers at funerals carry the coffin on their shoulders rather than by the ...
The first call came in at 2:30 p.m. on June 23, 1921. A family’s loved one passed away at Auburn City Hospital and was requesting the service of the newly established funeral home. The late Mr. and ...
EVERY minute more than 100 people die. Most of these deaths bring not just grief to some, but also profit to others. America’s 2.7m-odd deaths a year underpin an industry worth $16bn in 2017, ...