Hello Deathlings!
So a couple weeks ago we were all set to start editing a different video to release today. It was one that we were excited about (and one you will see) but Team Death Video was itching for some NEWSY story. We wondered if we were ignoring some big mummy jamboree somewhere.
Well, ask a...
2021-05-21 20:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Good Day Deathlings,
Here's a little insight into how we figure out video titles.
Yesterday Louise and I were figuring out last minute edits and details for this royal funeral video when the topic of the title came up.
Make it wacky? Something...something...corgi procession...custom Ran...
2021-04-17 14:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Greetings on this fine Tuesday. Team Death Video is messing around with release dates, do not adjust your devices or clocks.
When news hit a little while ago that Frozen, that Disney juggernaut about the sister who was never bothered by the cold and the sister that helps/saves/stop...
2021-04-13 23:15:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
As some of you may remember, a while ago I went on a little writing retreat to the middle of the desert. While I was out there I got a chance to explore one of the most inhospitable places on earth, Death Valley. To the naked eye, life resists in Death Valley. It's ungodly hot, bone dry, and most...
2021-03-29 20:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Surprise Monday video for you!
Maybe it's a little meta to react to a video where someone is reacting to you, but as soon as I saw this "ASK A MORTICIAN PARODY" by Novympia I knew I wanted to respo...
2021-03-22 16:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
For the record, lots of thought, and care went into the making of this video. It took weeks for Queen Sarah Chavez to research, design, and prepare the feast I gobbled down. Team Death Video was a well oiled machine, like the line in a kitchen.
But I'll fully admit that in my hea...
2021-03-13 15:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Today's video is exciting for a number of reasons:
1) It's the third video in the cannibalism trilogy we didn't set out to make but here we are!
2) This video has been a long time in the making and I can't tell you how good it feels to release a long historical video after months of A...
2021-02-27 15:33:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
We're dropping a new video today because I wanted to update you on how things are going in Los Angeles since our last video.
Spoiler: things are still bad. People are still dying at a shocking rate. Or as officials h...
2021-02-18 17:40:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Today's video is a video I wish I didn't have to make. As a funeral director, never in my wildest nightmares did I think I'd be making a video like this.
But here we are.
I'm operating a funeral home in the midst of a humanitarian disaster. COVID deaths have overwhelmed Lo...
2021-01-28 19:03:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings!
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me to critique a corpse they'd seen in a movie or their favorite Netflix show, I would never have to monetize another video. So after almost a decade of growing up before your very eyes (from a 20-something to a 30-something) on YouTube, I'm fina...
2021-01-16 15:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post
My darlings, my angels, my pandemic pretties,
We're back with another ICONIC CORPSE.
For the moment, I only feel comfortable going to places that are one-shot, several hour driving distance away. I know some people feel differently (and I'm not judging) but you'd really have to haul me kicking an...
2020-12-19 15:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Today we proudly publish another article in the Death Gap series.
Since this article falls during the same the week as the National Day Of Mourning, we w...
2020-11-25 22:57:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
It's a video about the plague!
IN SAN FRANCISCO!
It sounds weird (especially right now) to be like, "We had so much fun making this plague video!" but we did! Maybe Team Death Video is getting a li...
2020-11-21 15:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
This article is part of our series The Death Gap: End-Of-Life Inequality, a collaboration between The Order Of The Good Death and The Collective For Radical Death Stu...
2020-11-19 17:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
This week we are launching our new series, "The Death Gap: End-Of-Life Inequality".
In collaboration with The Collective For Radical Death Studies, this four-part series will examine the various ways in whic...
2020-11-11 21:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
I'm so excited about this week's video. From the very beginning of my death nerd journey I've loved just how absolutely koo-koo bananas this story is. I mean it's HISTORY with a capital "H", but the characters are so eccentric, the events are so fantastical, the public is so BRUTAL, you'd think I...
2020-10-31 14:39:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings,
Today's video brings you two troubling tales: one you have ALL been asking about and one well, I just wanted to talk about.
We're talking about the case of how Timesha Beauchamp was taken to the funeral home instead of the hospital (truly troubling) and my favorite weather story, the ...
2020-10-17 14:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Louise here. Caitlin is off in Book Writing Land, so she asked me to tend to the dark flock.
Not that y'all are sheep.
Y'all have your own big, opinionated brains, and we love that.
Has this post already gone off the rails? Don't tell.
Ju...
2020-10-15 19:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
May I present to you the video collab you didn't know you wanted (OK some of you Dr. Mike crossover fans did ask for this) but we went ahead and did it, and now we're like, "Why didn't we do this sooner?"
Dr. Mike AKA Dr. Mikhail "Mike" Varshavski D.O. asked me to come on his YouTube channel 2020-10-12 17:12:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
In case you missed it over the weekend, we have a new article on the Order website.
At The Order we're frequently asked how to get involved in more practical ways in the death positive movement by folks who know they want to help but aren't sure how. In 2018 we created 2020-10-05 17:10:59 +0000 UTC
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Hello Deathlings and welcome to another video!
When I was a younger Caitlin living in San Francisco, I told a geology student friend of mine that I was planning on moving to Los Angeles.
"Don't do it," he said.
Aww. He'd miss me!
"No, it's not that. LA was never intended for hum...
2020-09-26 14:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Today we have a new article for you on the Order website on the power of Black song.
Writer Danielle Broadway explores the history and importance of music in Black funerals in her guest post for us, 2020-09-18 18:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Louise here – your loyal video producer, Patreon manager, and Order hag.
I'm filling in for Caitlin today because THOSE VIDEOS AREN'T GOING TO SHOOT THEMSELVES.
But honestly this is one of those articles that really resonated with me. I suspect, especially right now, it might ...
2020-09-07 22:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
I cannot tell you how many times I've been talking with someone and they get this glint in their eye, like their about to tell me some SECRET plan. Which they are.
"When my mom dies, we've decided that I'm going to keep her skull and put it on my mantle!"
or
"When I 2020-09-05 14:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings!
For the last video of the summer (yes, yes *technically* summer is over on September 22, but come on – don't we all really think of the end of summer as September? THAT'S FALL Y'ALL) we bring you a video that ushers in the SPOOKY season.
Big shout out to Sarah Chavez who co-wrot...
2020-08-29 15:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings!
Today's video is about Cotard's syndrome AKA "walking corpse syndrome". I know some of you know what this is as over the years many of you have requested that I do a video on it.
Well, ask and eight years later you shall receive!
This video was tricky. How do you...
2020-08-08 14:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Deathlings,
And welcome to another video!
Y'all...when my team and I started this video, I had NO IDEA how complicated the Waco siege was. (And that David Koresh had a rock 'n' roll band with a song called "Man Man in Waco" that will get stuck in your head for days and days and...) My "stuck ...
2020-07-25 14:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
May I present to you our video on freeze-drying a corpse AKA promession.
After being asked about this process approximately 937 times, we thought it was time for us to devote a video to the concept of promession.
Concept of promession.
I really don't w...
2020-07-18 15:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Deathlings!
Have you seen our latest little video offerings?
This week we debuted Trivia Mortis: bite-sized videos delivering deathy fun facts certain to wow and delight:
Hello Deathlings!
Today we bring you a video that would never have existed had I not been stuck in Texas for months. So...shout out to quarantine?
While passing through Granbury, Texas I learned that not only was Jesse James...uh, "Jesse James"...buried in the local cemetery, but that there was a whole THING about...
2020-06-27 14:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
