The Atlantic article on L.A.’s recent death salon.
Seriously. Please let me know.
It seems that death has hit the mainstream. Or maybe it has hit it’s annual Halloween peak. A weekend-long “death salon” in Los Angeles, which featured writers, artists, sociologists and funeral directors, attracted huge crowds of people. An article about it was featured in The Atlantic. This video segment on “CBS Sunday Morning” explained the joys of living next to a cemetery. Caitlin Doughty, a goth-looking young mortician in L.A., has almost 20,000 likes on her Facebook page, The Order of the Good Death.
Yet, when I post death-related topics, I get relatively few likes and comments. My main audience is still relatively small and centered on rural Minnesota. Maybe we just aren’t death-salon-going people around here. But if we are, I will be organizing one. I bet Ann Rosenquist Fee will help me.
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The 2015 Death Salon is being planned for Cleveland. I am totally going again. The first one was incredibly inspiring. Hope to meet you there!
I would love to know more about how this was organized. Minnesota totally needs an event like this, too!
All the details are here: http://deathsalon.org/
I’ve never been to Minnesota, but I keep hearing wonderful things about Lakewood Cemetery — so it seems like the time is right.
I’d totally go!!
However, I’m in the Cincinnati area, and I can’t see folks doing that here…
If I were in Minnesota, I’d be with you!!!
You never know! I guess one is being planned for Cleveland in 2015.