The Case for Forever Domains and Grieving in Good Company

10 book recs + why 10 years isn’t long enough for website registration

Don’t Deal With Death Alone (‘Read in Peace’ Book Recs)

10 books on our tendency to retreat from grief, its maddening ability to make itself known, and the new worlds that can open when we surrender ourselves to support.

Your Website Should Outlive You: The Case for Forever Domains

Historically, your life’s work could live on indefinitely in a book or work of art. Today, web domain subscriptions last a decade, making your online legacy one failed credit card payment away from obsolescence.

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Much exposition on disposition (i.e., ‘how do I get rid of a body?’)

The Town That Burns Its Dead in the Open Air

Death in America is a $20B industry. In one Colorado county, it’s a volunteer with a long metal pole and a pile of wood.

The Nurse Told Us He’d Die Any Minute. The Man Seemed in No Hurry.

Puzzles over pizza got us through the final 377 minutes of Dad’s life.

World’s First Body Farm Triples Human-Remains Caseload

University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s famed center for studying how humans decompose will work 90 cases per year in new 2,725-square-foot facility.

Deadbots, Post-Death Pointers, and Grief Casseroles

Plus: a slew of new stuff now that we're live, all in GraveDigest — your weekly fill of freshly tilled dirt on death

GraveSite is Alive

Launch day has arrived.

Nsl no. 3: Yapping

Dear Reaper, HellFireside Chat Questions Answered, and More

Dear Reaper: I'm Cleaning Out My Dead Mom's Place, and It's Beyond Cluttered. What Estate Paperwork Do I Look For — and What Do I Do With It?

Track down the will first, Reaper says, and invest in a good shredder.

Nsl no. 2: Mortal Combat

On the human urge to remember and forget we’re mortal.