NEW Video: New York, COVID-19, & ALL THE DEATH MISINFORMATION

Greetings Deathlings, 

How was your weekend? 

A friend of mine in New York City, at a loss for how to give her young son the whole VIP Easter treatment, told him that the Easter bunny was quarantined. Don't worry, he still got pancakes and Black Panther movie time. 

Everybody was happy and nobody had to unnecessarily leave their home for plastic eggs and chocolate. Her son understood the restrictions of these weird times – even if his understanding involved a magical rabbit refraining from hopping into millions of people's homes to deposit colored eggs and (potentially) viral particulate. 

It's not grim – it's Easter bunny safety in the time of COVID-19! 

Now if only adults understood the whole "it's not grim, it's protocol" part of COVID-19 in New York (and elsewhere). Hence why we made the video that we're offering you today. 

REFRIGERATED TRUCKS! TRENCH BURIALS! OVERFLOWING CREMATORIES! 

There's a lot of fear-mongering and misinformation out there – my hope is to offer you some clarity today as well as to calm some of your fears. Please share with your Uncle Artie before he posts yet ANOTHER drone photo of the horrors of trench burial on Hart Island. 

So take care of yourselves and your loved ones, deathlings. If some piece of death/burial/funeral news sounds too horrific or "click-baity" to be true, it probably is. Keep an eye on our social media, the Order site, and our YouTube channel – we're doing our best to answer your questions and bring you solid information from reputable sources. 

And in case you missed it, we recently published a COVID-19 Toolkit. Consider it your one-stop source for reliable and up-to-date facts and guidance on handling death, grief, and end of life planning under COVID-19.

I hope someone makes you pancakes too. 

From a Safe Distance,

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. 

Easter Bunny image via https://bit.ly/3ebAvae