I rarely read poetry, but sometimes you stumble upon a piece that carves out its own place in your heart. Andrea Gibson’s poem When Death Came To Visit is one of those.
Category: Popculture & Media
Swedish Death Cleaning – A Coffinfolk Kind of Spring Cleaning
Minns du hur alla pratade om fenomenet “svensk döstädning” för ett par år sedan?
Suddenly it became a viral trend to declutter, sort, and organize your home in preparation for your own death — or simply to bring a little more order into your life.
Now that winter is slowly loosening its grip, perhaps this year’s spring cleaning could be given a little extra thought — and a deeper meaning? Let’s revive death cleaning.
A Romance with Death – On the Bookshelf
We humans have been personifying Death for thousands of years.
I do the same with my own version of Death in the form of the Grim Reaper Herrow, a character you can meet in Coffinfolk’s standalone short stories.
Why we do this is a topic for a future blog post—today I’m keeping things a bit lighter.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, here are a few reading tips where Death is not only personified, but quite literally romanticized. 🖤
Game recommendation: Seasonala Cemetery
Gabby DaRienzo and her team have done it again! Their previous title, A Mortician’s Tale, focused on the funeral industry in the United States, and now, as a natural next step, players are invited to explore the fictional cemetery of Seasonala Cemetery.
“The Unknown Woman of the Seine", One Of the World’s Most Kissed Faces
Paris, late 1880s. A young woman is found dead in the river Seine. Not unusual in itself—the river had claimed many lives, through accidents, crime, and suicide. Sadly, it still does today.
What made this anonymous woman so remarkable was her face. So peaceful it almost looked as if she were simply asleep.
In this post, you’ll learn about the Unknown Woman of the Seine, who went from an unidentified drowning victim to an artistic icon and one of the most kissed faces in the world.
Book recommendation: “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?”: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
Children often ask the best questions—sometimes about things I’ve never even considered myself, but suddenly I want to know the answer too once the question has been asked. That’s why I highly recommend Caitlin Doughty’s book “Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death”, in which she uses her expertise, warmth, and humor to answer thirty-five questions from curious little kiddos.
Game recommendation: A Mortician's Tale
I’d like to recommend one of my favorite games where Death takes center stage: A Mortician’s Tale.
It’s a small but eye-opening game — especially for those of us who don’t live in the U.S., and perhaps even more important for Americans to learn about the choices they actually have when it comes to both their loved ones’ funerals and their own.
Movie Picks: 'Death' in the cast
Death has played many roles on the silver screen – from philosophical games of chess in the Middle Ages to romantic dramas and animated family adventures with talking animals. Here’s a selection of films and series where Death itself sets the mood with laughter, tears, and chills.