“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead, so why … be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
— John Updike
memento mori
@tenposike
just a little scrapbook where i reblog posts on the topic of death and posts that celebrate life and history. no original content. content warning for death, possibly unreality and occaisonally outdated language
mass ~ ron mueck
Photos from an overgrown graveyard
Books About Death
By no means a comprehensive list. I haven't had a chance to read some of these, but here's a small list for learning more about dying, death practices, and culture surrounding death. I may expand the list later but here's what I have for now
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty
- From Here To Eternity: Traveling The World To Find The Good Death
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From The Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- Being Mortal: Medicine And What Matters In The End by Atul Gawande
- Death And The Afterlife: A Chronical Journey From Cremation To Quantum Resurrection by Clifford A Pickover
- Understanding Cemetery Symbols by Tui Snider
how fucked up is it that in the future you could stumble upon internet threads and the timestamps would be “one century ago” like imagine that… youre reading the words of these people, their conversations and their lives all perfectly laid out from over a century ago. and they say shit like “mario has the best nintendo feet” and thats just been sitting there for a century
by Corvus Blackwood
As soon as the shelter in place order was issued in Illinois I immediately got to work on collecting all the right elements of a plague doctor uniform.
“Dr. Catherine Wraithdale the Plague Demon of Winchester” This was done and shared in our Facebook group by Henry Dervaric
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Amazing makeup inspired by Chinese porcelain with gilding by Julio silveira
Look at my Professor Layton clock I made with my granny
Original image: wredwrat (on deviantart)
New tattoo design I thought of. Kinda has a Bill Cipher edge to it.
