Archive for the ‘Death + Popular Culture’ Category
The Dark Arts
27, Feb 2010Etsy.com, the DIY/craft juggernaut, is the go-to place to buy and sell all things handmade. If you are familiar with this phenomenon, you would know that if it’s vintage button earrings and owl-themed stationary you desire, then Etsy has it locked down.
The Etsy craze is so hot right now that it was recently featured in [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Art / Architecture| Death + Popular Culture| Death + the Web
- Tags: crafts, Etsy, jewelry
Funeral for the Aints
19, Feb 2010Jazz Funeral to Bury the Aints Nickname
Keith Spera, The Times-Picayune (February 19, 2010)
A short article out of New Orleans caught my mock funeral adoring attention: on Saturday at four, a jazz funeral procession will commence for the no longer relevant nickname, “the Aints.” Saints once more, the NFL team rocked the Superbowl a couple [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: mock funerals
Death Meets Corporate Retreat in South Korea
5, Jan 2010 South Koreans Experience What It’s Like to Die — and Live Again
John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 2010)
For $25 a client, the Coffin Academy in Daejeon, South Korea, will help you experience what it’s like to be a corpse, including penning your own epitaph, writing final letters to loved ones and attending [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: death meditation, seminars, suicide
The Cliffs of Tojimbo
20, Dec 2009“I will continue until the government finally gets its act together and takes over,” he said. “I can’t let their inaction cost another precious life.”
Japan has a long history of suicide. And nowhere is this cultural phenomenon felt more keenly than at the cliffs of Tojimbo, a popular tourist destination, on Japan’s western coast. This [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + Popular Culture| Death + the Law| Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Japan, suicide
Santa Muerte…Saint Death Accepts Everyone
13, Dec 2009Devotion to Saint Death
William Booth, The Washington Post (December 6, 2009)
I don’t really know a lot about Santa Muerte or Saint Death. After I read this article, I remembered seeing the various Santa Muerte statues in Mexican stores but never really thought twice about it.
This Washington Post piece brings a whole new angle to worshiping [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Popular Culture
- Tags: anthropology, cults, religion, video