What Our Resident Death Law Experts Have to Say About 2019 & the Future of Death
Added 2020-01-09 19:51:33 +0000 UTCHappy New Year Deathlings!
I hope your decade is off to an excellent start.
To kick off the year, we bring you our first article of 2020!
In "The Good, the Bad, and the Future of Death: Talking with Death Law Experts", The Order's Caroline Reilly spoke with our two resident death law experts – attorneys Tanya Marsh and Emily Albrecht – about the good and bad of death in 2019, and what we have to look forward to in 2020.
Truly historic things regarding our death rights took place last year – from the first fundamentally different method of disposition to be legalized in the U.S. for almost a CENTURY, to the case of Aimee Stephens, a trans woman and funeral director who was fired for her identity, to efforts to require funerals for fetuses.
Also, what can we expect in 2020? What's going on with aquamation, green burial, and how can the death positive movement impact both the law, but enact even more change in the coming years?
So much to think about, so much to discuss.
And while we can't predict all that 2020 will bring, we can tell you that a new video premieres this Saturday! Check out part two in our look at Victorian death and mourning at the Merchant's House Museum.
Thank you deathlings for all the support and good work you've done thus far – here's to a gloriously death positive 2020 and beyond!
Caitlin
