About me.

My name is Christina.  I started this archive in the hopes of cataloging (and making sense of) all we currently know and understand about death and even the rituals and customs in the West that surrounds the end of biological life.

Of course, as with most questions, my search around death and dying led me to still more questions: What are we? Who are we? Are we more than just biomechanical meat suits scurrying across a rock that's floating around in space? And if we are more, then what really happens when our bodies die? Do we go on? Is there something beyond this?

So many questions.

So this is a collection of meanderings, if you will - it's my attempt to ask big questions and find out if anyone else out there is asking them, too.

And if so, maybe we can ask them together.

You won't catch me talking too much about myself here. I'm very uninteresting and have little to share. You will catch me talking about death a lot - and grief, and living, and much, much more. I'll occasionally insert an opinion about something, but when I do, I'll say it's only my opinion.

Oh one more thing:

A couple of readers have asked me about social media.  I'm not on social media, except for Pinterest.    I loathe self-promotion, so you won't find me talking too much about what I write, except for the occasional pin announcing a new post (and even that not very often). Pinterest is fun because I can watch vids of cute kittens and not spend much mental energy on it.  But I'm not on any other venue, and don't plan on getting on them.   If you want to engage with me, the best way to do so is by sending me an email here. I really do read every email.   Or you can sign up for my periodic publication. I write letters to my regular readers who subscribe whenever the notion strikes me.