Water Cremation and The Ballad of Dick Hamm

Hello Deathlings! 

Well I have a certain Christmas tune stuck in my head right now. 

I challenge you to watch to the very end of the video and not be humming it through New Year's. 

Dick Hamm ditties aside and this new video that we are very passionate about but honestly had a lot of fun making too, there's a lot going on at Death HQ!

If you liked this video and want to learn more about all the things that go into the legalization of green death alternatives, check out the LATEST EPISODE OF DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON where I talk with founder of Recompose Katrina Spade and executive director of the Order, Sarah Chavez. 

[Playful artwork of three skulls balanced one on top of the other, with toothy, cartoony grins. One is orange, one is off-white, one is black. The black one has a hand with a smiley face coming out of it's eye socket. Around the skulls are the words in a rather groovy font, Death in the Afternoon in the same off-white as the skull. The image is on a moss green background.]

And if you've had your eye on the chicken, the porpoise, or any of the books you've spied on my shelves from videos over the years (or classic merch, signed books, art, etc!) check out our online silent auction, Shop a Mortician November 25 through 29. All earnings will go to supporting The Good Death Fellows. It's a good cause and maybe you can get yourself a nice bat necklace. 

And if you're in the mood for some pre-auction shopping, checkout out both The Order of the Good Death Store and my SECRET Shop ($5+ Patrons) for 15% off all crop tops, tanks tops, muscle tanks, and racerback tanks. Sale takes place Friday November 11th through Friday November 18th.

Last but not least, $5+ Patrons we bring you our final *limited edition* item of the year. A glass water bottle with the chemical equation for aquamation on it, it's a great opener for all those alkaline hydrolysis gab sessions you've always wanted to have. Get it before Dick Hamm Hulk-smashes them all. 

[White glass water bottle with tan bamboo lid. Written vertically in black is the chemical equation for alkaline hydrolysis.]

Thank you Patrons for all the support, sweet comments, and commitment to making death better for us all. Keep your eyes on our Patreon this holiday season as we've got some goodies just for you all in the works. 

Onward deathlings! 

xo

Caitlin

*A quick, but important clarification: If you clicked on this post from your email, the subject probably read, "Caitlin Doughty's new patron-only video". This is not a patron-only video; this is a video that was released to the public. When we release patron-only videos we will explicitly state in the video info and in the video post that it is a "Patron Exclusive" video. Patreon recently changed the way Patrons-only video posts (i.e. these nifty messages that are delivered to your inbox) are released via email – automatically adding that "patron-only video" line to the subject, even if that's not the case. But that's not how we (and a lot of other creators) do things. So, sorry for the confusion! I hope this cleared things up! We're working on fixing this with Patreon.