Libby Copeland

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Kate’s Still Here (Esquire.com, Winner of Hearst Magazines’ 2017 Editorial Excellence Awards)

Libby Copeland November 30, 2017

Deloy Oberlin didn’t know how much time his wife had left, but he knew he wanted to spend their final days together fulfilling her last wish.

Categories: Articles, Best Of, Esquire.com, Science Tags: alternative death practices, Deloy Oberlin, home funerals, Kate Oberlin

Who Owns The Dead? (The New Republic)

Libby Copeland June 27, 2015

A small but growing group of women like Knox are slowly building a movement to change our modern, big-business approach to death. They call themselves home funeral guides or death midwives.

Categories: Pop Culture, The New Republic Tags: Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty, death midwives, home funerals, Order of the Good Death, the business of death

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