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#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the...

#MondayMourning: Louise the Unfortunate

No one knows Louise's real story. Legend has it that she traveled to Natchez sometime after the Civil War in search of her fiancé. For reasons unknown, she found herself stranded and husbandless.

Too proud to return home, she became a seamstress, maid, then "woman of the night." After dying in her mid-20s, a mysterious benefactor paid for her funeral and this headstone, more than what most paupers received.

#HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Monument #Memorial #Gravestone #Headstone #ReconstructionEra #Natchez #Louise #LouiseTheUnfortunate #Epitaph #WomenOfTheNight

Follow me for more funeral hacks 👍🏻(but seriously, I can help you think of ways to personalize funeral services)#HisAndHearsePress...

Follow me for more funeral hacks 👍🏻

(but seriously, I can help you think of ways to personalize funeral services)

#HisAndHearsePress #Funeral #FuneralService #Mortuary #MortuaryScience #DeathPositive #CelebrationOfLife #Pinata #Bees

#WordyWednesday: Bleb(used in a mortuary context)A blister on a dead body, filled with stinky liquid, which usually turns into an area of...

#WordyWednesday: Bleb

(used in a mortuary context)

A blister on a dead body, filled with stinky liquid, which usually turns into an area of skin slip (moist peeling skin) after it's been drained. Not fun at all.

#HisAndHearsePress #Embalming #Embalmer #DeadBody #MortuaryScience #Bleb #Blister #Gross #Ew #Stinky #Vocabulary #WordOfTheDay

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo DaVinci #HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay...

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo DaVinci

#HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay #DeathPositive #LeonardoDaVinci #Cemetery #Funeral

#MondayMourning: It’s YOUR GriefGrief is a very individual experience. There are so many factors that affect it, like your personality,...

#MondayMourning: It’s YOUR Grief

Grief is a very individual experience. There are so many factors that affect it, like your personality, support network, beliefs, previous losses, and the security you feel in other aspects of your life (financial, housing, relationships, work).

Don't use the grief experiences of others as a gauge for your own. Grieve in the way that feels comfortable to you, and don't worry if others think you're doing it too much or too little.

#HisAndHearsePress #Grief #Mourning #GriefAndLoss #GriefSupport #GrieveYourWay

It’s July 5th! Do you know what that means???It’s basically Halloween now! 🎃#HisAndHearsePress #July5th #ItsPracticallyHalloween...

It’s July 5th! Do you know what that means???
It’s basically Halloween now! 🎃

#HisAndHearsePress #July5th #ItsPracticallyHalloween #HalloweenSeasonStartsNow #SpookySeason #Halloween #HalloweenCountdown #EverydayIsHalloween #Goth #AnatomicallyIncorrect #HalloweenDecor

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet- Emily Dickinson#HisAndHearsePress #Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotesToLiveBy...

That it will never come again
is what makes life so sweet

- Emily Dickinson

#HisAndHearsePress #Quotes #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotesToLiveBy #EmilyDickinson #Literature #Poetry #LiveLife #YOLO #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm

Graphic x ray images of hands with fireworks injuriesDon’t be dumb with fireworks, okay? 💥🤕💥#HisAndHearsePress #Happy4thOfJuly...

Graphic x ray images of hands with fireworks injuries

Don’t be dumb with fireworks, okay? 💥🤕💥

#HisAndHearsePress #Happy4thOfJuly #4thOfJuly #IndependenceDay #USA #XRay #Ouch #DontDoThis #FireworksSafety #PartyResponsibly

Patriotic Passings: Did you know? Three of the founding fathers managed to die *on* the 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Thomas Jefferson - 1826John...

Patriotic Passings: Did you know? Three of the founding fathers managed to die *on* the 4th of July! 🇺🇸

Thomas Jefferson - 1826
John Adams - 1826
James Monroe - 1831

#HisAndHearsePress #4thOfJuly #BornOnThe4thOfJuly #DiedOnThe4thOfJuly #IndependenceDay #FoundingFathers #USA #PatrioticAF #ThomasJefferson #JohnAdams #JamesMonroe #DeadPresidents

Happy 4th of July! Do your local mortician a favor and party responsibly. We can wait. Fun fact: Uber surge pricing is cheaper than a...

Happy 4th of July! Do your local mortician a favor and party responsibly. We can wait.

Fun fact: Uber surge pricing is cheaper than a funeral. Make plans to avoid driving drunk.

#HisAndHearsePress #Happy4thOfJuly #4thOfJuly #IndependenceDay #USA #Freedom #RedWhiteAndBlue #FireworksSafety #DrunkDriving #DontDrinkAndDrive #BuzzedDrivingIsDrunkDriving #PartyResponsibly

What soap is for the body,Tears are for the soul - Jewish Proverb#HisAndHearsePress #Proverb #JewishProverbs #Quotes #Grief #GriefQuotes...

What soap is for the body,
Tears are for the soul

- Jewish Proverb

#HisAndHearsePress #Proverb #JewishProverbs #Quotes #Grief #GriefQuotes #GriefAndLoss #Mourning #HaveAGoodCry #CryingIsHealing #DeathPositive

Well… they’re *not* wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️ #HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Headstone #Gravestone #IncorrectSignage #Funeral #Mortuary...

Well… they’re *not* wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

#HisAndHearsePress #Cemetery #Headstone #Gravestone #IncorrectSignage #Funeral #Mortuary #PainStopsHere #TheyreNotWrong #DeathPositive #StandingStoneSunday

📸: Kayla Faustus or…?

I accidentally discovered a newly opened indie bookstore close to home! I bought two books that ought to be useful for future projects (wink...

I accidentally discovered a newly opened indie bookstore close to home! I bought two books that ought to be useful for future projects (wink wink).

Happy Opening, Sunken City Books!

Reader, YOU can support this store from a distance through www.Bookshop.org

My book haul:

Rough Medicine: Surgeons At Sea in the Age of Sail, by Joan Druett

How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life, by Ruth Goodman

#HisAndHearsePress #IndieBookstore #IndieBookshop #Bookstodon #Bookwyrm #SupportSmallBusiness #IndependentBookstore #SunkenCityBooks #SanPedro #SanPedroCA #BookHaul #Nonfiction #HistFic #VictorianEra #HistoryOfMedicine #HistoryOfSurgery

#FuneralFactFriday: Hell MoneyThe colloquial name for a form of Joss paper (incense paper), printed to resemble legal tender bank notes....

#FuneralFactFriday: Hell Money

The colloquial name for a form of Joss paper (incense paper), printed to resemble legal tender bank notes.

Rooted in Asian culture, the fake currency is burned as an offering to the deceased in hopes of prosperity in the afterlife. Loose bundles are often placed inside caskets prior to cremation.

In this context, Hell represents the afterlife in general and does not have the unpleasant connotation that Western culture associates with it.

#HisAndHearsePress #FuneralCustoms #Funeral #MortuaryScience #Joss #JossPaper #HellMoney #HellBankNote #AsianTradition #Afterlife #Burial #Cremation #Incense #FunFacts

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day. - Valerie Harper#HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay #LiveLife...

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral.
Live this day.

- Valerie Harper

#HisAndHearsePress #Quote #QuoteOfTheDay #LiveLife #ValerieHarper #QuotesToLiveBy #Funeral #Cemetery #InspirationalQuote #DeepThoughts #LiveYourBestLife

People: "I hope I go to heaven after I die"Me: "I hope the most diverse little ecosystem grows from the soil of my decomposed...

People: "I hope I go to heaven after I die"

Me: "I hope the most diverse little ecosystem grows from the soil of my decomposed body - just the coolest plants, fungi, little insects, birds, animals, microbes just thriving on my remains…”

Words: @wokescientist
Artist: @emossillustrates

#HisAndHearsePress #NaturalBurial #GreenBurial #HumanComposting #AlkalineHydrolysis #EcoFriendlyFuneral #DeathPositive #MortuaryScience #SustainableFuneral

#WordyWednesday: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮Pronounced: toe-MAIN.The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable...

#WordyWednesday: Ptomaine 💨🤢🤮

Pronounced: toe-MAIN.

The unholy gang of nitrogenous stink compounds responsible for the indescribable stench of decomposing bodies. Found in decaying vegetable and animal matter and formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria.

Includes cadaverine and putrescine (the smell of putrefying flesh or rotting fish), indole (smells like mothballs), and skatole (smells like poop).

Other chemical compounds produce smells akin to rotting cabbage, nasty garlic, and rotten eggs. Ptomaine was originally thought to cause food poisoning but has been disproven.

Raise your hand if you've had this smell cling to your nose hairs after a long day at work! Semi-related, death workers deserve a raise.

#HisAndHearsePress #Ptomaine #Decomposition #Cadaverine #Putrescine #Indole #Skatole #Putrefaction #Funeral #MortuaryScience #DeathCare #Embalming #Vocabulary #Stinky #Decomp

Cat shenanigans, featuring Cleocatra and her hapless brother, Arfurr Conan Spoiled. #HisAndHearsePress #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon...

Cat shenanigans, featuring Cleocatra and her hapless brother, Arfurr Conan Spoiled.

#HisAndHearsePress #Catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #KittensOfMastodon #Caturday #EverydayIsCaturday #KittyTreadmill #Treadmill #Shenanigans

Not feeling like it’s a day to celebrate? It’s okay to be sad, angry, jealous, disappointed, or a mix of multiple emotions....

Not feeling like it’s a day to celebrate? It’s okay to be sad, angry, jealous, disappointed, or a mix of multiple emotions.

#HisAndHearsePress #FathersDay #Bittersweet #GriefAndLoss #MixedEmotions #FathersDayIsHard #UnhappyFathersDay

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, papas, uncles, grandpas, stepdads, adoptive dads, mentors, and father figures! #HisAndHearsePress...

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, papas, uncles, grandpas, stepdads, adoptive dads, mentors, and father figures!

#HisAndHearsePress #FathersDay #HappyFathersDay #FatherFigures #Dad #Daddy #Papa #Uncle #Stepdad #AdoptiveDad