HeyJaredthe dead peoples society
i'm a death historian, a comedian and a currently living person. i'm using all those attributes to explore what death means and to make everyone a little bit more comfortable with the idea (me, mostly, but hopefully you, too.) new posts biweekly, probably
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i am once again talking about the bordens (opens the original)
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i’m back on my particular brand of borden-adjacent bullshit, which happens way more than you’d think for someone who did not specifically do a phd on fall river, massachusetts in 1892. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substack
ding dong! (opens the original)
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recently i was watching the wizard of oz (for some reason) and for not the first time, i was struck by how an entire community saw a woman get crushed by a house and then proceeded to sing a song about it. partially it scares me because it’s a little how i feel my autism works - every villager already knows the routine except me - but also because the response to the witch’s death is so upbeat and celebratory. and it got me thinking about how i often come on here and write things about grief, an
we need to talk about poppy (opens the original)
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recently the telegraph, for some reason, gave an opinion article to journalist poppy coburn, and apparently no one at the telegraph has ever met a disabled person, so they just published it without reading a single word of it. at least, i hope that’s what happened, because if it’s not, allowing this to go out is a real indicator of where we might be heading.in the article, which i do not particularly wish to go through line by line, coburn argues that there’s a new rise of young women on the int
well great, now i'm beefing with spirit halloween (opens the original)
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every year i wait anxiously for my local, abandoned CVS stores to go into chrysalis and become the beautiful butterfly that is spirit halloween. even though i don’t usually partake in “normal” halloween things like costumes or parties, i love spirit halloween because it’s one of those places that feels like an event made specifically for people who are absolutely just ready for halloween season. but this year, i’m afraid, i won’t be thrilled to see the bright orange signs covering up the remnant
salt circles for tragedy (opens the original)
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i normally do not write about current events. in fact, i mostly spend my time writing and reading about very not-current events, and trying to understand why they’ve stayed with us so long, because i am very cool and fun and invited to a lot of parties.but today i want to chat a bit about the lindsay clancy case. and not because i’m suddenly reversing my entire policy on true crime or because i believe my personal opinion is relevant, but because i can no longer go anywhere on the internet witho
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