Welcome to Death Salon. We hold events that bring together intellectuals and independent thinkers engaged in the exploration of our shared mortality by sharing knowledge and art. Death is sanitized and hidden in contemporary culture to the point of becoming a taboo subject. We aim to subvert this death denial by opening up conversations with the public about death and its anthropological, historical, and artistic contributions to culture. In the spirit of the 18th-century salon, our curated intellectual gatherings hosted in cities worldwide.
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Death Salon Organizers
[Director and Founder] Medical librarian, Order of the Good Death member, anthropodermic book researcher, Death Salon director & curator of each Death Salon event. Follow @LibraryatNight
ADVISORY BOARD
[Founder and Curator] Licensed mortician and founder of the Order of the Good Death and co-founder of Death Salon; NYT bestselling author, host of Ask A Mortician. Follow @TheGoodDeath
[Social Media Editor] Order of the Good Death executive director, curator at The Lindsay Museum, and blogger of Nourishing Death. Follow @wunderkamercast
Medical historian, author of The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice and Grave Matters, host of Under the Knife, co-chair of Death Salon UK (2014). Follow @drlindseyfitz
Writer, researcher, editor and author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses. Editor at Mental Floss. Contributor to Lapham’s Quarterly, NYT and more. Follow @besslovejoy
Theatrical Designer, Relic mapper, armchair hagiographer, and blogger of All the Saints You Should Know. Follow @CadaverFormosus
Founder of The Morbid Anatomy Library and The Morbid Anatomy Museum. Historian, photographer, morbid doyenne. Follow @morbidanatomy
Curator of Odd Salon, fan of dead explorers and doomed expeditions, co-curator of Death Salon: San Francisco (2014). Follow @deadexplorers
I am very interested in being a part of this. Are you still active? Please let me play with y’all! This is how I dance with Death http://www.deathmonologues.com. Thanx. Giselle
Kindly provide location/date/time and fee for the SF Salon….or if there’s one in Sacramento, CA
All the info is here: https://deathsalon.org/future-events/death-salon-sf-2014/
Are comments from previous Salons available? When/where is the SF Salon? Is there a fee? Is there a Salon anticipated in Sacramento, CA?
All of the info is on this site, feel free to look around.
Hello Megan,
We have to get in touch. I have a one woman show which I wrote and perform called THE DEATH MONOLOGUES that would fit in PERFECT with the Death Salons! I think it was unknowingly created for the Death Salons. You can find more information here:
http://www.deathmonologues.com
I know it’s a little late for the upcoming SF event (especially since I live in northern Arizona) but for any future events?
Please be in touch!
All the best with this wonderful event,
Giselle
I find this very intriguing. I have been a embalmer since 1984. I now work as an autopsy tech at a coroners office. I am very interested in all the changes that need to be made in this field. The licensed people should be treated differently , like getting paid better than the many people that work as so called funeral counselors, that have not training at all in this field.
I have been watching online coverage of your past events and am always sad I’m not a part of them somehow! Is there any way for another vendor to jump on board? I know it is a little late! I make high fashion witchy clothing on a ready to wear budget!
Hi your stuff sounds interesting but unfortunately we’re totally booked for vendors and have a waiting list for others looking to get on board. Thanks for thinking of us!
Hello! This is (as you all know) an amazing event. Due to a pretty rigid 9-5 schedule I think I will only be able to attend night sessions. I see that on the second even I f the night session is open to the public, so I was wondering if I would have to purchase tickets to attend the first evening. Also curioua if, by chance, tickets to the Death Ball were able to be sold separately. I wish I could come to the day sessions and will keep trying to pull strings at work!
Thank you.
Hi there, we don’t have tickets for just the Monday evening part of the event, and the Death Ball is sold out, so I would advise against buying a ticket if you can’t make the AM sessions as that’s most of the event. For the Tuesday Quizzo I’d say arrive nice & early as it’ll fill up fast, but will be lots of fun! Thanks for your interest, MR
Hi Megan, When will the tickets go on sale for the Death Salon event in Texas?
We’re still working on the ticketing but sign up for the newsletter and we’ll announce there!
Thanks so much. I attended the event at the Getty. I’m excited to attend the event in Texas. Thanks for replying.
Are there ever any events held in Australia? I would love to get involved but I feel so distant from all the awesome things happening while here in Australia !
We do get requests for an Australian event but we haven’t found a way to work it out just yet, however we’re open to the idea in the future if we can find a way to do it that won’t be too expensive to run.