The Deathly Blog

Skulls and skeletons are an unmistakable symbol of death, what better way to portray death than to show the aftermath of it? We’re all familiar wit...

If you were to see a coffin what’s the first thing you think of? If it was a thriving life then you're wrong, yes, there was a wrong answer. There ...

Everybody’s heard of the Grim Reaper. I remember drawing an A3-sized one back in my early school years. I don't know why I chose that character, if...

The Victorians had many omens of death. In an extract from the book “The Victorian Book of the Dead” by Chris Woodyard. On a ship, a Tom Gray was s...

I began researching death via two books: “The Victorian Book of the Dead” by Chris Woodyard and “Japanese Death Poems” by Yoel Hoffmann. These two ...

Everything has a start. Death, however, always signifies the end of things. Although I’m not dead, and I haven’t had any (very) close relatives die...