This covers the waaaaaay huge topic I could go on and on about - "Memento Mori". However, in this episode, I do go off a bit on the feminist view of the buddhist practice of corpse meditation after describing it to a T. In this episode, there are a number of topics covered, so it is information heavy.

Ashley Otis did this script (and I added my fifty million cents).

Covered topics are:

*Monks watching cadaver deterioration as a form of meditation ("corpse meditation") and how the corpses were typically of female bodies

*Victorian Era Death Mourning and Mourning Jewelry/ Fashion

*Victorian Era Death Portraits

*Curiosity Shops: their origin stories and the oldest curiosities shoppe in Seattle where I talk about its assortment of mummies, taxidermy, and its greatest collection of shrunken heads

*The world's most famous skull

*Halloween and Día De Los Muertos celebrations (and some arguments about how capitalism are attempting to commandeer people's traditions and the dangers of them claiming cultural traditions as their own)

*The Twitter Nun keeping the true meaning of "Memento Mori"alive!

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