Death in the Afternoon
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
INTERVIEW: Uncovering Pet Death's Greatest Mystery
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The author of history's most influential piece of animal mourning literature had been lost...until now. Learn the incredible true story behind The Rai...
INTERVIEW: The Doulas Taking on California's Cemetery and Funeral Bureau
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A court case in California could force death doulas to become licensed funeral directors. We talk to the doula and the lawyer taking on California's F...
INTERVIEW: Cadaver Dog in the Cemetery
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Go behind the scenes with Cat Warren, who works with cadaver dogs to find the missing dead and locate Black and Indigenous burial grounds. Episod...
Legalization, TikTok, and Angry Elephants: An Immersive Year in Death
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From viral trends to new options for your future corpse, Caitlin and Sarah review the best and worst of the past year in death, revealing how the deat...
CLASSIC ARTICLE: Whose Green Burial Is It Anyway?
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a space of loss that is already difficult to exist in, we need to do more to understand how our language surrounding green burial can better acknow...
INTERVIEW: How We're Failing New Morticians
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mortuary schools began as embalming schools, sponsored by embalming chemical companies. Today, mortuary schools are designed to be more holistic, cove...
CLASSIC ARTICLE: Washing Kathryn, Touching Death
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how long you’ve been working with dead bodies, nothing can prepare you for working on someone you knew and loved. Episode Resources T...
INTERVIEW: Opening a New Green Burial Cemetery
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Where would you even start in opening your own green burial ground? After all, every cemetery is a unique snowflake, with its own confusing blend of r...
CLASSIC ARTICLE: Does Death Positive Mean Death Fearless?
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hot Take: We’re all afraid of death – whether it’s the actual state of being dead one day, the pain of dying, or how your remains will be treate...
INTERVIEW: How Human Composting Becomes Law
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Description Our future corpses have more options than ever, with eco-friendly processes like aquamation and composting being legalized across ...
Season 3 Trailer
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back for Season 3 of the Death in the Afternoon, a podcast from the Order of the Good Death!
Popcorn & Postmortem Predation
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this audio preview of her new book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Caitlin is sharing whether swallowing popcorn before you die will indeed make yo...
Is That a Corpse in my Culture?
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're talking corpses as entertainment. Not the idea of a corpse (sorry, horror fans) but real live – or should we say real dead– bodies. Fr...
What's In Your Head, Zombie?
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Before zombies became the brain-eating pop culture phenomenon of the Walking (or Living) Dead, they represented something more complicated. From the p...
Get Your Sh*t Together!
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Wills, advanced directives, emergency savings accounts – what's not to love? Ok, we get it, facing your mortality through piles of bureaucracy is ...
Maggots Holding High Carnival
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The American Civil War left roughly 700,000 men dead and an entire nation devastated. With millions of pounds of rotting human flesh on the battlefiel...
Dude, Where's My Monument?
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We know who gets fancy monuments: politicians, military heroes, and so many men on horses. In cemeteries the playing field may be leveling, with faces...
The Least Worst Death
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two Manhattan tragedies, two miles and ninety years apart, that changed government policy forever. But the victims couldn't afford to step back and ...
Fantastic Funerary Failures
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cremation and burial are all well and good, but why aren't our dead bodies electroplated or cemented? In our first episode of Death in the Afternoon...
The Haunting of Hill House- Mortuary Madness!
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You asked for it, deathlings. A bonus episode on the mortuary and embalming scenes in Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House. Are they accurate? A hot m...
Ring RIng, Corpse Phone
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ring ring. Hello? Who’s there? IT’S YOUR MORTALITY CALLING. In life, phones make everything easier– just “reach out and touch someone.”...
Or Maybe It's a Ghost?
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A wisp of white. A voice in the dark. A lamp mysteriously turns on by itself. Few things capture our imagination like a good ghost story. But is there...
Embalmed Alive
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Embalming. It sounds like the stuff of horror movies: pump a dead body full of chemicals to make it look alive – ALIVE! Whose idea was this? Is th...
It's OK to Not Decay
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, to die, to decompose, to become one with the earth. Most of us accept this as our fate. But what happens when that whole “decomposition thing”...
Don't Drink the KoolAid!
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Being in a cult... doesn’t always end well. This week, we confront the questions: Why not drink the Kool-Aid? How many puppies does it take to resur...
Is That a Foot?
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Generally speaking, we like our limbs in context. “The foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone.” B...
Crematory Whoopsies
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mistakes happen. Cremations happen. But few things capture our morbid imagination like cremation mistakes happening. Whether it’s the horror of crem...
My Roommate, a Corpse
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our first episode, we take you on a magical (ok, not always so magical) journey of living with the dead. From an adorable 91 year old lady with a d...
Trailer: Season One
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to your mortality, humans! It's a new podcast called Death in the Afternoon from the team that brings you Ask a Mortician. First episode is ou...