PHOTO CREDIT: RACHEL FRANKEL FOR LIFEEXPIRED.COM TRIGGER WARNING: The following post contains material related to mental health issues, depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicide. Please read at your own discretion– and bear in mind that no one would be better off if you were dead. “If COVID wasn’t contagious… I’d be licking public toilet seats.” ThreeContinue reading “Surviving A Pandemic When You Want To Die”
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We’re More Afraid To Be Alone Than To Die: COVID-19
PHOTO CREDIT: PIXABAY VIA PEXELS COVID-19 has changed life as I know it; but not everyone is changing. While writing my previous post about death rates and the coronavirus, thousands of social media posts flooded platforms with warnings against mass hysteria, overreaction, and inciting anxiety amongst the public. Like the good citizen our watchdogs wantedContinue reading “We’re More Afraid To Be Alone Than To Die: COVID-19”
Your Kitchen is More Deadly Than The Coronavirus
EDIT*** September, 2020: As you can clearly see by the humorously low COVID-19 figures used in this article, I was very wrong. The current measures put in place for COVID-19 safety are justified and fueled by information, not fear. Masks have always been, and will always be, for the sake of slowing the spread. NotContinue reading “Your Kitchen is More Deadly Than The Coronavirus”
Eulogy 101: How to Deliver A Tribute That Kills
Giving a eulogy is terrifying. After receiving news that a family member or loved one has died, it can be distressing enough just to make funeral arrangements (or alternatives) in a matter of days. Even after the extended family and friends have been notified, a guest list has been made, priests have been requested, caterersContinue reading “Eulogy 101: How to Deliver A Tribute That Kills”
Deadiquette: Comments You Should Never Make At a Funeral
PHOTO CREDIT: TOPHEE MARQUEZ VIA PEXELS Deadiquette: Why It’s Neccessary When I was five, my parents dodged the furrowed brows and judgmental scowls of strangers as I approached an open casket. Jean, my trusted mahjong partner and “secret keeper” at the senior citizen’s center, had died. She was 83. Nearly two decades later, I canContinue reading “Deadiquette: Comments You Should Never Make At a Funeral”
Making Mama Coco’s Ofrenda
How to bring Mexico’s Día de Muertos tribute into your own home If you were one of millions who watched the Pixar movie Coco (the highest grossing animated movie of all time in Mexico), chances are you’ve become familiar with the mystical ofrenda. And if you haven’t, you’re about to become “educarte.” What is anContinue reading “Making Mama Coco’s Ofrenda”
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