Living with the dead (literally)
If you have around 13 minutes, please check out this fascinating TED talk by anthropologist Kelli Swazey. She speaks of …
Tag Archives: death
My YouTube channel is up!
I now have a YouTube channel. Please subscribe if you can! I will be posting occasional videos in which I …
What’s wrong with writing about grief and loss?
I heard someone the other day criticize people for writing about grief. His reasoning was that everyone has lost someone, …
Social networking and grief
I’m doing some research into the use of social networking to express grief. I find myself a little surprised sometimes …
Busting myths about the five stages of grief
I need this book. The short review in ObitMag intrigued me. Apparently, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ famous five stages of grief (denial, …
Some questions about gravedigging
On Tuesday I spoke to about 25 students in Dr. Don Ebel’s Sociology of Death class at MSU-Mankato. I gave …
That’s a lot of kids
This is a photo of my Grandpa and Grandma Hager and their 14 kids, taken around 1957. Dad is second …
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 