In the email announcing the Bacon Coffin, Justin and Dave added, “Don’t you judge us, after baconlube [bacon flavored personal lubricant], we all knew it was just going to keep getting weirder. And yeah, your [sic] right we’re probably going to hell for this one.

MSNBC.com: “A coffin for bacon lovers to die for”

I have no idea what this is. It looks like someone autopsied a starchperson and left the uterus on the break room table.

I have no idea what this is. It looks like someone autopsied a starchperson and left the uterus on the break room table.

Retronaut: “A Ride of Death.”

Retronaut: “A Ride of Death.”

Not sure what Vice President George Clinton looked like? Neither was I. Thanks, Google.

Not sure what Vice President George Clinton looked like? Neither was I. Thanks, Google.

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Try this quiz. I got a 7 out of 10.

Thank you, Gems of the Internet, for the tip (and this, too), and thank you, Caitlin Doughty, for being not only a mortician but also a funny person and good writer.

Caitlin’s site is The Order of the Good Death. Not only does it offer an “Ask a Mortician” video series, but it also has a pretty hilarious and fascinating blog. In the episode above, Caitlin discusses the impossibility of postmortem tattooing and Tibetan sky burial (my favorite death ritual, too!). 

Her site is everything I wish this site could be, and more. I can’t believe it took me this long to find it.

(Source: operationkino, via zooplancton)

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