Death in the Afternoon RISES AGAIN!

Your death gals are back!

Welcome to the first episode of Death in the Afternoon, Season 2: Fantastic Funerary Failures.

Cremation and burial are all well and good, but why aren't our dead bodies electroplated or cemented?  In our first episode of Death in the Afternoon– Season Two, we're talking about the ridiculous funerary innovations that succeeded (see: the death-defying green parks of Hollywood) and the ridiculous funerary innovations that... didn't (see: coffin torpedoes.) 

Thank you deathlings for helping us to continue with our nerdy, deathy podcast. This is truly one of our favorite things to do with the whole Order Squad. Stay tuned for more episodes to be released in the coming months! 

And to whet your appetite for S2E1, here's Sarah Chavez with a little Funerary Failure Factoid:

In our first episode of season 2,  Caitlin makes a reference to this popular meme that's been making the rounds the past few years. 

The coffin pictured is located in Houston's National Museum of Funeral History. and is part of their Thanks for the Memories exhibit, which showcases celebrity funerals. The glass casket was made as an homage to the casket Snow White is placed in, and a small version of the dress the character wears in the Disney film is displayed above it. 

Be sure to follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram at @DeathAfternoon where we'll be sharing extras, including even more fantastical funerary inventions that didn't make it into the episode. 

Death in the Afternoon is a podcast written, researched, and developed by Caitlin Doughty, Sarah Chavez, and Louise Hung of The Order of the Good Death. 

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and funeral home owner in Los Angeles, CA. Along with Sarah and Louise she runs The Order of the Good Death and the Good Death Foundation, orgs that spread the death positive gospel around the world through video series like Ask a Mortician, blogs, bestselling books, and now, a gosh darn podcast!

Sarah Chavez is the executive director of The Order of the Good Death. As the child of parents in the entertainment industry, she was raised witnessing choreographed Hollywood deaths on soundstages. Her work has been influenced by her unique life and weaves together the relationship between death and food, feminism, Mexican-American death rituals, and the strange and wondrous history surrounding the culture of death itself.

Louise Hung is writer/producer for "Ask a Mortician" and a community manager for The Order of the Good Death. While she can usually be found hunched over her computer working scripts, Louise has also been known to tap out a few words about death in folklore, history, pop culture, and Asian or Asian American communities.

Death in the Afternoon Theme Music: Dory Bavarsky

Editing: Landis Blair 

Engineering: Paul Tavenner at Big City Recording Studios and Josh Wilcox at Brooklyn Podcasting Studio