The Story I've Been BURNING to Tell You

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'd made it up. 

Friends, if I were this creative I'd have some high-concept corpsey prestige show on HBO or Netflix by now. 

I have a YouTube channel. 

NO REGRETS. 

But can you even IMAGINE if they made a TV show or mini-series about America's first official cremation? Why haven't they done that yet? Why aren't Nick Offerman, Rahul Kohli, and Paul Rudd playing our trio of cremation heroes? 

Oh yes and HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I feel like I have should have something more exciting to tell you or show you on this most macabre of days, but I'm just hanging at home...like I do...only with the promise of (more) snack size candy bars (than usual). 

I'll be dressing up as Lady Who Goes Out. So I'll wear shoes indoors. 

Are you all doing anything for Halloween? Movies? Candy? Socially distanced trick or treating? (How does that work?)

Whatever you do, stay safe out there, wear a mask, and don't eat candy with pointy things in it. 

From an appropriate social distance, 

Caitlin 

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