The Coffin Club
TED Talk: How to Write Your Own Obituary
TED Talk: My Mushroom Burial Suit
Why You Should Spend Time with a Dead Body
A Burial Practice the Nourishes the Planet
TED Talk: What I Learned from 2,000 Obituaries
Leaving a Legacy Through Intent
Our recommended reading list for funeral planning:
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
- Rest In Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in the 20th Century by Gary Ladermann
- The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care by Thomas Long & Thomas Lynch
- On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death by Robert Kastenbaum
- The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
- The Perfect Strangers Guide to Funerals and Grieving Practices by Stuart Maltins
- When We Die: The Science, Culture and Rituals of Death by Cedric Mims
- The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
- The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neuman
- Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
- Death, American Style: A Cultural History of Dying in America by Lawrence R. Samuel
- Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and American Culture of Death by Mark Schantz
- Death’s Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches us about Live and Living by Brandy Schillace
- Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life by Caleb Wilde
- The American Resting Place – 400 Years of History Through our Cemeteries & Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalmon
Our recommended reading list for obituary writing:
- The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
- If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
- Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende
- The Last Word: The New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells by Marvin Siegel
- The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries by Hugh Massingberd