Human anatomical mannequins placed near each other

What’s Old is New Again: The David Saunders Autopsy and Corporate Graverobbing in America

Black and white photo of workshop with charred wood and rubble on the ground.

Screaming Over the Rubble: The Shifting Role of the Family in American Disaster Victim Identification

Wood engraving of an Irish Wake

Irish Keens, Modern Grief, and the Digital Landscape of Mourning

An overhead view of 20 fabric face masks, with bright fabrics, including flowers, birds, unicorns, dogs, and cats. The mask on the far left is for a small toddler.

Alone, Together: Memory and Death in a Pandemic

Dead Babies in Boxes: Dealing with the Consequences of Interrupted Reproduction

Burying the Dead, and Then Digging Them Up

Woodcut from A Wonder of Wonders depicting the hanging of Anne Greene, which she survived. On the left side of the image are two people lying in a bed, with a speech bubble that says BEHOLD GODS PROVIDENCE. On the right is the hanging woman, by rope from a gallow. A woman is kneeling below her praying. A man pokes her with the butte of a rifle. A coffin waits open in the bottom left

News from the Dead

Brightly colored painting of Amitabha seated in the lotus position in the centered background of the image, surronded by flowwers and other Buddhist iconography.

The Deathbed and the Sound of Rebirth

Aerial view of refineries and storage tanks, with plumes of black smoke rising from them

“Heroic Effort Beyond the Call of Duty”: Death Care Workers and the 1947 Texas City Disaster

A list of global COVID-19 deaths lists the United States with 133,291 deaths and Brazil with 69,184 deaths.

To Let Die: COVID-19 and the Banalization of Evil