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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1909542/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1909542/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Natural burial: How does honoring the dead impact the environment? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeathCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathCare</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreenBurial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenBurial</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GreenBurialCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenBurialCouncil</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalBurial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalBurial</span></a></p>
Kristin Markling<p>An article from Equal Deathcare about what death doulas are and why they are so important to the LGBTQIA+ community. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeathDoula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathDoula</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeathCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.equaldeathcare.org/2024/10/10/death-doulas-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-so-important/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">equaldeathcare.org/2024/10/10/</span><span class="invisible">death-doulas-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-so-important/</span></a></p>
Nick Dunkenstein<p>If you or a person you know has chosen a green end of life option for yourself (or for a loved one) you should take this survey! It can help bring updated information to others about green burials! <br /><a href="https://qualtricsxm3zx5bkb29.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_57NtH7W1hsN2sbc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">qualtricsxm3zx5bkb29.qualtrics</span><span class="invisible">.com/jfe/form/SV_57NtH7W1hsN2sbc</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Greenburial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Greenburial</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deathpositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathpositive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deathcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathcare</span></a></p>
Nick Dunkenstein<p><a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2024/01/25/green-cremation-could-be-coming-to-indiana/72245169007/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">indystar.com/story/news/enviro</span><span class="invisible">nment/2024/01/25/green-cremation-could-be-coming-to-indiana/72245169007/</span></a><br />&quot;“That’s what this is really all about,” Genda said. “It does have environmental positives, but for me it is wanting to give families in the state of Indiana another option.&quot;<br />Indiana peoples keep your ears and eyes peeled! Tell everyone you want more options for your death options! <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Deathpositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Deathpositive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deathcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathcare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/watercremation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>watercremation</span></a></p>
Nick Dunkenstein<p><a href="https://www.change.org/p/give-texans-the-freedom-to-choose-what-happens-with-their-final-remains?redirect=false&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=267107912&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-95zhQQL7v0V4DWgf6TmQdKFcOwKM8f_RTj2eSQ-h8wcQUEQfDXWjhRAABqHXJR5LWHM910M6FERsdOMbFs0pUz8Sbp5IOaG-YvHXOrrYGiOHsvAEs&amp;utm_content=267107912&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;fbclid=IwAR0kCuOi9BmxBwU4I-CEMnhMao9HQG9ihMdHA05rSfOl_C0rXWko_uW0sVg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">change.org/p/give-texans-the-f</span><span class="invisible">reedom-to-choose-what-happens-with-their-final-remains?redirect=false&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=267107912&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-95zhQQL7v0V4DWgf6TmQdKFcOwKM8f_RTj2eSQ-h8wcQUEQfDXWjhRAABqHXJR5LWHM910M6FERsdOMbFs0pUz8Sbp5IOaG-YvHXOrrYGiOHsvAEs&amp;utm_content=267107912&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;fbclid=IwAR0kCuOi9BmxBwU4I-CEMnhMao9HQG9ihMdHA05rSfOl_C0rXWko_uW0sVg</span></a><br />Water Cremation, or Aquamation, or alkaline hydrolysis, is a great option to choose for your after death wishes. If you live in TX, or have friends there, take a moment to look through this possibility and bring it to TX as another option of cremation. Its beautiful, and better environmentally than fire cremation. <br />Its time you had a choice in the matter. <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/deathcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>deathcare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Deathpositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Deathpositive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/watercremation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>watercremation</span></a></p>
His & Hearse Press<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WordyWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WordyWednesday</span></a>: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮</p><p>Pronounced: toe-MAIN.</p><p>The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable stench of decomposing bodies. Found in decaying vegetable and animal matter and formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria. </p><p>Includes cadaverine and putrescine (the smell of putrefying flesh or rotting fish), indole (smells like mothballs), and skatole (smells like poop). </p><p>Other chemical compounds produce smells akin to rotting cabbage, nasty garlic, and rotten eggs. Ptomaine was originally thought to cause food poisoning but has been disproven. </p><p>Raise your hand if you&#39;ve had this smell cling to your nose hairs after a long day at work! Semi-related, death workers deserve a raise.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HisAndHearsePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HisAndHearsePress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ptomaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ptomaine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Decomposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Decomposition</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cadaverine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cadaverine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Putrescine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putrescine</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Indole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indole</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skatole" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Skatole</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Putrefaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putrefaction</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Funeral" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Funeral</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MortuaryScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MortuaryScience</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathCare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Embalming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Embalming</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vocabulary</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stinky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Stinky</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Decomp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Decomp</span></a></p>
His & Hearse Press<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmReading</span></a>: All the Living and the Dead: </p><p>From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life&#39;s Work</p><p>By Hayley Campbell</p><p>Real talk: I was hesitant when I first saw this book because I knew it had the potential to sensationalize or demonize the funeral profession. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Hayley interviewed exceptional people and portrayed them accurately. Phew!</p><p>She didn’t shy away from the graphic nature of each person’s occupation, but she also kept it within a professional context. I appreciate her efforts to shine a light on the workers people prefer to ignore and prove that we’re compassionate and empathetic rather than a flock of vultures (fun fact: it’s actually called a “wake” of vultures).</p><p>As a funeral director and embalmer, I highly recommend this book. Everyone ought to know a bit about what happens behind closed doors before passing a broad judgement based on stereotypes. </p><p>FYI, this book covers the duties of workers in the USA and UK. Practices and laws vary by location. Here’s the book’s blurb:</p><p>“A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there.</p><p>We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look?</p><p>Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.”</p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearsepress" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookshop.org/shop/hisandhearse</span><span class="invisible">press</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HisAndHearsePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HisAndHearsePress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookRecommendations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookRecommendations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BookRecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BookRecs</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bookwyrm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bookwyrm</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathPositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathPositive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Funeral" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Funeral</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mortician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mortician</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathCare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathProfessional" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathProfessional</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HayleyCampbell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HayleyCampbell</span></a></p>
His & Hearse Press<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WordyWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WordyWednesday</span></a>: Shrouding Women</p><p>When you think of morticians, you might conjure images of creepy old men in black suits. But did you know that they&#39;ve only been &quot;in charge&quot; of the dead for the last century or so? Before that, men were typically responsible for building coffins and digging graves. Body preparation fell to the women!</p><p>Women were already tasked with nursing the sick, distributing herbs, and aiding in childbirth, so bathing and dressing the dead was a natural progression. Since it was a duty that demanded care, gentleness, and propriety, men were simply unsuited to the task. Enter the shrouding women.</p><p>Many neighborhood women became skilled and knowledgeable in the art of preparing the dead. They understood the weather&#39;s effect on decomposition and how to tend to bodies suffering from various conditions. They lent their expertise to those in need, not for monetary compensation but as an act of community.</p><p>Duties included preparing a cooling board (sometimes an ironing board or barn door placed over chairs), washing and dressing the corpse, closing the eyes and mouth (coins on eyes and jaws secured shut with tied rags or forked sticks propped against the breast bone), and otherwise arranging the body into a restful pose.</p><p>Commercialization of death care after the Civil War led cabinetmakers to evolve from coffin builders to embalmers. They wrested control of bodies away from women, claiming women were weak, delicate, and unable to tolerate the sight of blood. As the men rose into the ranks of professionals, women were relegated to the sidelines of death care. They became decorations. Trade journal advertisements portrayed men doing funeral work and women as objects of beauty. The foundation was laid for men to dominate the industry for the next 100 years.</p><p>Fortunately, we&#39;ve come full circle and women are entering funeral service in droves. Over 70% of graduating mortuary science classes are women. Turns out we *can* handle some blood after all.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HisAndHearsePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HisAndHearsePress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensDay</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenSupportingWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenSupportingWomen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathCare</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FuneralService" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuneralService</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MortuaryScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MortuaryScience</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MortuarySchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MortuarySchool</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeathPositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeathPositive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FuneralDirector" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FuneralDirector</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Embalmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Embalmer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mortician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mortician</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Undertaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Undertaker</span></a></p>
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