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!