Rachelle Younie, the host of the Mortality & the Morgue podcast, joins the show to discuss collecting bones as a teen, working at a morgue, and writing death-related comedy. We also spend some time on our minor obsession with Bill Hader. Enjoy. Listen to Mortality & the Morgue here.

A unique combination of science and style, Divya Anantharaman is New York City's premiere taxidermist. An award winning licensed professional preserving animals with honor and compassion for clients ranging from museums, high end designers, gallerists, and collectors. Her specialties are birds, small mammals, and anatomic anomalies, with a select number of commissions open for pets. www.gothamtaxidermy.com

The Crowded Bookshelf is an independent online and pop-up bookstore based in Fort Collins, CO. They sell new, used, audio, and e-books, as well as bookish gift items. They also host virtual and in person author events. Visit www.thecrowdedbookshelf.com for more!

Marcus McKenzie and Daniel Principe are an award-winning Australian filmmaking team working under the moniker Cinemâché. Shifting between the worlds of narrative and documentary storytelling, their work spans both film and television. This documentary hybrid interrogates capital punishment through death row inmates’ final meal requests. Through mesmerizing cinematography, food becomes a larger than life symbol to explore the life and crimes of incarcerated individuals sentenced to death. Watch Last Meal Film now. 

The Crowded Bookshelf is an independent online and pop-up bookstore based in Fort Collins, CO. They sell new, used, audio, and e-books, as well as bookish gift items. They also host virtual and in person author events.  Visit www.thecrowdedbookshelf.com for more!

Do you have a will?! You should probably have one. It takes on average just 15 minutes to create your state-specific legal will on wills.com and when you use the discount code ROB you will receive a 25% discount upon check out for your lifetime membership with unlimited changes to your personal will so head over to Wills.com where state-specific legal wills are done online.

We are starting a death book club! Kinda, sorta.  The Crowded Bookshelf is an independent online and pop-up bookstore based in Fort Collins, CO. They sell new, used, audio, and e-books, as well as bookish gift items. They also host virtual and in person author events.  Visit www.thecrowdedbookshelf.com for more! 

Mary-Frances O'Connor is a renowned grief expert and neuroscientist who shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. Make sure you check out her new book, The Grieving Brain.

In recent years, much of the developed world has seen the emergence of end-of-life debates and increasing pressures for legalization of physician-assisted dying. This is the practice where a physician provides a terminally ill patient, at their explicit request, with a prescription for a lethal medication that they can take on their own. 

Chris Buck is a photographer and director based in New York and Los Angeles.His portraits have won placement in the prestigious annual American Photography over forty times, and he was the first recipient of the Arnold Newman Portrait Prize.  Chris has photographed some of the biggest names in the world. He spoke with me about his time working with, Chris Farley, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elliot Smith, and more. Sharing stories I've never heard before.