how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between
created by kasanei
last updated August, 2026

You might be interested in everything by professional mortician Caitlin Doughty - she has a YouTube channel too, but hasn't been posting much lately.
Also "The Body Farm" and related books about the facility that studies how bodies decay.


love her channel!! she does such amazing work with demystifying death 🫶 thank you for the recommendation, i will absolutely check it out!! body farms provide such valuable information & thankfully there's multiple facilities now!
Came here from your review on Stiff Do you have any more recommendations, like the ones you posted in the reviews comments?


depends, anything specific you're looking for or more generalized information??
I think generalized information! I don't know where to start so a more introductory academic paper or article would be nice! If you've got time to recommend!


found some things for ya! some are a little extra wordy/jargon-heavy, but have fantastic trails of resources connected for more specific knowledge (:
☆ "Death Ritual: Anthropological Perspectives" by Milton Cohen (18pgs) @ https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialSciences/ppecorino/DeathandDying_Text/Death Ritual.pdf
☆ "The Anthropology of Death Revisited" by Matthew Engelke (16pgs, 2019) (Google it to read free! won't let me link) — breaks down different types of studies on death
☆ "An Anthropology of Death for the Twenty‐First Century" by Antonius C. G. M. Robben (26pgs) @ https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/373731/Death.pdf?sequence=1 — provides a bit more extensive of a background + ins n outs of important aspects
Omg thank you so much!! They'll be my weekend article reads. The weekdays are filled with ecology papers
have you thought about adding Smoke Gets In Your Eyes? :o
Yessss and From Here to Eternity!!
Written In Bone & All That Remains by Sue Black would be great additions here.