Podcasts by Death, et seq.
Death, et seq. literally means "Death and what follows." This podcast addresses all aspects of death care in the United States -- options for funerals and disposition, the ways in which "traditions" are being disrupted, and where death care is headed. A broad range of experts within the funeral industry and various reform communities are invited to share their views. Listeners are invited to actively participate by submitting questions and topics of interest.
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Episode 5: Introduction to Funeral&Disposition Planning (with Prof. Rebecca Morrow) from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.666281
This episode discusses funeral and disposition planning in the context of estate planning, explains why pre-planning is a good idea, and discusses the major options available to American funeral...
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Episode 6: History, Music, and Mortality with David Childers and Phil Chaney from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.660915
In this week’s episode of Death, et seq., I am talking to two of my favorite people about two very different topics. First, I’ll be talking to my uncle, Philip Chaney, about his experience grow...
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Episode 13: Sarah Crews on Conservation Burial, Home Funerals, Music&Mortality from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.640118
This is Tanya Marsh and you’re listening to Death, et seq. My guest this week is Sarah Crews, the director of Heart Land Prairie Cemetery in Salina, Kansas, the first all natural burial ground ...
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Episode 16: Music, Mortality&The Avett Brothers with Tim Mossberger from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.607286
About a month ago, I sat down with my friend Tim Mossberger in Champaign, Illinois to talk about our mutual favorite band, The Avett Brothers, and a bunch of their songs that deal with topics re...
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Episode 17: The Impact of the Protestant Reformation on Burial Practices (with Jordan Artrip) from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.599362
The Protestant Reformation of the early 16th century changed countless aspects of everyday life for every kind of person across Europe. One of the things most profoundly affected was the popular...
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Episode 18: Music&Mortality: Murder Ballads and The Couldn't Be Happiers from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.594413
Jodi Hildebran Lee and Jordan Crosby Lee are the Couldn't Be Happiers. Check them out at www.couldbehappiers.com. On this episode, they play murder ballads The Long Black Veil and a feminist re-im...
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Episode 20: Planning for Incapacity with Jonah Bamel and Greg Volk from 2023-12-13T14:45:09.588633
Estate planning should involve more than simply creating the appropriate documents to address who will receive your property after your death. Modern estate planning also includes some planning ...
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Episode 22: NYC Cemeteries&Crematories in the COVID 19 Pandemic from 2020-04-26T22:58:42
The death care system in the New York City metropolitan area is overwhelmed. In this episode, we speak with Phil Tassi, President of the New York State Association of Cemeteries (NYSAC), and David ...
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Episode 21: Death Care in the Time of COVID 19 with Amy Cunningham from 2020-04-19T19:03:23
Recorded on April 18, 2020, Brooklyn funeral director Amy Cunningham explains how death care is being handled in New York City a month into the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Episode 19: Discussing Cremation with Barbara Kemmis of CANA from 2019-01-14T02:40
On this week’s episode, I am happy to share with you a conversation that I recently had with Barbara Kemmis, the Executive Director of the Cremation Association of North America, or CANA. Crema...
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Episode 15: Death Related Holidays with Tyler Cunningham from 2018-10-29T15:00
Death is celebrated all over the world on annual basis. More than 175 million Americans will celebrate Halloween this year, with total spending in 2018 reaching $9 billion, with the average cons...
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Episode 14: Cemetery Tourism in Philadelphia and Music by Dan Zlotnick from 2018-10-26T21:03
This hybrid episode combines Cemetery Tourism in Philadelphia and the music of recording artist Dan Zlotnick. In Part I, I discuss the history and some of the notable burials in Spruce Street C...
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Episode 12: Josh Slocum of The Funeral Consumers Alliance from 2018-09-24T10:00
My guest this week is my friend Josh Slocum, who is the Executive Director of Funeral Consumers Alliance and the co-author of Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death. Josh is a consu...
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Episode 11: Amy Cunningham and the Meaningful Funeral from 2018-08-27T02:45
Amy Cunningham is a progressive funeral director and the owner of Fitting Tribute Funeral Services in New York City. A former journalist, Am...
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Episode 10: Cemetery Tourism in NYC and Boston from 2018-08-15T14:36
Episode Transcript:
My name is Tanya Marsh and you’re listening to Death, et seq. We’ve been talking about funerals a lot on this podcast so far, and I wanted to switch gears this week a...
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Episode 9: Lee Webster on Home Funerals, Green Burials&Social Justice from 2018-07-30T05:22
Lee Webster discusses her educational and advocacy efforts in the "neo-traditional" home funeral and green burial movements.
Links to organizations and resources mentioned in th...
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Episode 8: Bob Fells of ICCFA on The Value of the Traditional Funeral from 2018-07-23T13:00
One of my major goals with this podcast is to introduce listeners to a variety of perspectives on the funeral industry and changing death practices. In Episode 3, I talked to Dan Isard, who is ...
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Episode 7: A Preview of Dark Archives with Megan Rosenbloom from 2018-07-16T03:54
Megan Rosenbloom is Associate Director for Instruction Services at the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, ...
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Episode 4: Caitlin Doughty and the Death Positive Movement from 2018-06-25T04:03
I am so happy to have Caitlin Doughty as my guest on Episode 4. Caitlin is a licensed funeral director and the owner of Undertaking LA, a funeral home in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of ...
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Episode 3: Dan Isard and the State of the Modern Funeral Industry from 2018-06-25T04:02
In the United States today, most funerals are arranged by licensed funeral directors, most bodies are prepared for disposition by licensed embalmers, and many funerals take place in licensed fun...
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Episode 2: "What Happens to Human Remains in the U.S.?" from 2018-06-25T04:01
Whenever people ask me what I do, and I tell them that I research, teach, and write about the law of human remains, their first response is to say “uuuh.” And their second is to say “I’ve alway...
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