Death, et seq.
Tanya D. Marsh
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Episode 46: Demystifying End of Life Planning Documents
Do you have your documents in order to allow for a trusted person to make decisions about your health care and property if you become incapacitated? This episode walks through four important kinds of…
Episode 45: Empathy and End of Life with Stephanie Hopp
In today's episode, I talk to Stephanie Hopp, EdD, RN, CPN, an Associate Professor in the Undergraduate Nursing Program at Clarkson College in Omaha, Nebraska. Professor Hopp talks about her…
Episode 44: The Strange Case of Jeremy DeWitte
In this episode of Death et seq., Professor Marsh talks to Wake Law student Spencer Maher about Jeremy DeWitte, the man who turned a Florida funeral escort service into a viral masterclass in policy…
Episode 43: Regulating the Funeral Industry
In this episode of the Death Esq. podcast, Professor Marsh welcomes Jay Doshi to discuss the outdated regulatory structures of the American funeral industry. Doshi explains how the industry…
Episode 42: Green Burial with Suzanne Kelly
On this episode, I talk to Suzanne Kelly, chair of the Town of Rhinebeck, New York Cemetery Committee about green burial. The Town of Rhinebeck Cemetery opened a Natural Burial Ground in 2014, only…
Episode 41: Grave Goods
“Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.” This quotation comes from Robert Burton, a 17th century Oxford scholar and clergyman who understood…
Episode 39: Evidentiary Body Parts
In this episode, we discuss the retention and disposition of human remains after they are seized by law enforcement as part of a criminal investigation. We’re not talking about what happens to a body…
Episode 38: Disposition of the Remains of Incarcerated Individuals
When a person dies while incarcerated, what happens to their remains? Do incarcerated individuals receive as much respect in death as other individuals? Third-year Wake Forest Law student Katie…
Episode 37: Cremated Remains and What to Do With Them
In this episode, third year Wake Forest Law student Connor Crotty compares the processes of cremation and alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation), discusses the chemical composition of cremated…
Episode 36: Early American Protestantism and Death
Tanya talks to Erik Seeman, a history Professor at University at Buffalo and the author of several books on early American attitudes towards death and death care practices, including Speaking with…
Episode 35: Catholicism and Death
What death care practices are in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church? In this episode, Tanya talks to Wake Law student Andrea St. Paul about the historical evolution of Catholic death care…
Episode 34: The Ancient Law of Death
In this episode, Tanya talks to Vivian Bolen about the law and death customs in Ancient Rome and Greece, and to Lillian Remler about death customs in Ancient Egypt. The echoes of this ancient law and…
Episode 33: Burn, Bury or Biodegrade Me
In this episode, Tanya talks to her friend Holly Swenson, walking her through the options for the disposition of her remains (cremation, casket burial, green burial, water cremation, and human…
Episode 32: AI Memorialization and Digital Grief
Since emerging tools like AI memorialization, grief bots, and digital afterlife platforms can essentially allow us to virtually resurrect the dead, they can provide support during times of intense…
Episode 31: Military Burials with Professor Ellie Morales
In this episode, Tanya talks to Professor Ellie Morales, who directs the Veteran's Legal Clinic at Wake Forest Law School, about the funeral benefits available to service members and veterans, as…
Episode 30: Cemetery GPR with Dr. David Leslie
Ground penetrating radar (or GPR) is one of the geophysical techniques that archaeologists like Dr. David Leslie of Terrasearch Geophysical use to image or map archaeological sites without disturbing…
Episode 29: Buying and Selling Human Remains
For more information about the laws at issue in the so-called "Harvard Morgue Case," check out my article in The Conversation.
Episode 28: The Wake Forest Law Review & The Future of Death Care
Will Boyce, the current Editor in Chief of The Wake Forest Law Review is the guest. He and Tanya discuss the legal scholarship created in connection with the Spring 2024 Symposium -- The Future of…
Episode 27: Cremation Fireworks
Wake Law Student Jannine Huby organized this episode. She explains how cremation fireworks work and introduces Jason Diemer and Clay Adams of Greenlawn Funeral Home in Springfield, Missouri, the only…
Episode 26: Barbara Kemmis on Consumer Preferences in Death Care
In this episode, Tanya and Barbara Kemmis, the Executive Director of the Cremation Association of North America, discuss research conducted by Wake Forest University School of Law on consumer…
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