What are your Day of the Dead plans? Join me and meditation teacher Leah Raidt on 11/1 for a 2-hour workshop featuring a death meditation and living funeral ritual. Yes, we will be SHROUDING your bodies! (If you want—no pressure.) Register: leahraidtprivatecoach.as.me?appointmentT... #dayofthedead

Reduce, reuse, recycle…your local graveyard? Reusing graves is common in other countries, and with the increasing popularity of green burial, it could be even easier to do. What do you think?

#deathpositive #cemetery #recycle

After finally drafting a will, writer Rose Maura Lorre took her end-of-life prep up a notch and got a kit called a Nokbox: a box of worksheets that you file away for any next of kin tasked with managing your earthly to-dos after you’re gone. nyti.ms/4jJuIwL

I wrote tomorrow's newsletter about the death penalty MONTHS ago, but now that our government is planning to execute someone live on air, it's unfortunately more topical than I intended it to be. Sign up: deadparentswhatnow.com/newsletter

#newsletter #deathpositive #deathpenalty

Living in South Dakota? Here are the legal methods of disposition in your state as of October 2026.

#deathpositive #deatheducation #funeral #burial #cremation #aquamation #humancomposting #greenburial #southdakota

Make sure you're mentally in a good space before you pick up a copy—but I do think it's worth a read. bookshop.org/a/116176/978...

EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD *reads* like a light and airy novel, but the whole time I felt so sad for our narrator, Gilda, whose preoccupation with death leads to anxiety, depression, and very nearly worse... 🧵👇

#deathpositive #books

Let's be real: contemplating mortality is scary. This Halloween, let's try to work through our fear of death together. Catch you at the next edition of DUE DATE: A LIBRARY DEATH SALON on October 22 at Louisville's Mashup Food Hall!

#louisville #deathsalon #deathcafe #fearofdeath #deathpositive

While I’m certainly death positive, I also like to do my part to stop preventable deaths! Get 💉 this cold and flu season!

#deathpositive #vaccinated

Lately I've been helping out with tours of Loretto Woods Natural Cemetery—the only full conservation cemetery in the commonwealth! Won't you join us on October 15 or November 14? RSVP: www.lorettocommunity.org/loretto-wood...

#naturalburial #greenburial #kentucky #cemetery #deathpositive

Too afraid of your own mortality to make a will? Shake it off. Sign up for tomorrow's newsletter to learn why most Americans *aren't* making wills: deadparentswhatnow.com/newsletter

#deathpositive #willsandtrusts #estateplanning #mortality #endoflifeplanning #newsletter #taylorswift

Living in South Carolina? Here are the legal methods of disposition in your state as of October 2026.

#deathpositive #deatheducation #funeral #burial #cremation #aquamation #humancomposting #greenburial #southcarolina

Build a Better Sympathy Card at the Chicago End-of-Life Expo went great. Here are just a few—far superior to anything you might find in the greeting card aisle at your local drugstore!

#deathpositive #grief

See, Gen X? Someone remembered you exist! And you remembered that one day you WON'T exist!

#deathpositive #genx #survey #endoflifeplanning #estateplanning #endoflife

Tales from the Crypt! But IRL! Talk about your dead loved ones! Ask other people about their dead loved ones! It’s important to keep those memories alive!

#deathpositive #grief