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Description: "Miss Kate Lynn" at your service, for your Victorian home funeral needs! Thank you Merchant's House Museum for hosting us! Learn more about the Merchant's House Museum at merchantshouse.org Donate to Save the Merchant's House! merchantshouse.org/calltoarms Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible! patreon.com/thegooddeath The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial funerals.coop ***My new book! "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?"*** Purchase it: caitlindoughty.com/books/will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs My other two books!: caitlindoughty.com/books ***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR NON-PROFIT*** Shirts and merch from our Good Death Store: thegooddeathstore.com Small monthly donations on Patreon: patreon.com/thegooddeath A one time donation on PayPal: bit.ly/2HmgkYs ***LEARN MORE ABOUT CLARITY FUNERALS*** clarityfunerals.com Twitter: twitter.com/ClarityFunerals Instagram: instagram.com/clarityfunerals Facebook:facebook.com/ClarityFunerals ***MORE CONTENT!*** Find our podcast on iTunes: apple.co/2yK6c6G Find our podcast on Spotify: spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Find our podcast on Google Play: bit.ly/2AdEvoj The Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: orderofthegooddeath.com ***WHERE ELSE YOU CAN FIND ME*** Website: orderofthegooddeath.com Twitter: twitter.com/thegooddeath Facebook: ow.ly/Zz8PW Instagram: instagram.com/thegooddeath ***CREDITS*** Mortician: Caitlin Doughty Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair) Molly: Jenny Osorio (You're the best, Jenny!) All funeral procession footage courtesy of Eric Weeks (© Eric Weeks 2019). Thank you to Eric for helping create this video! This video could not have been possible without the Merchant's House Museum, the museum staff and volunteers, and Margaret Halsey Gardiner. ***MUSIC*** Greta Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100530 Artist: incompetech.com Classical Music 'String Quartet' (Royalty Free Music/ BGM) by Lee Jaerhyang Source: youtube.com/watch?v=9zJSRIxpgaY Artist: music.naver.com/musicianLeague/contents/index.nhn?contentId=73694 Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100556 Artist: incompetech.com Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?collection=005 Artist: incompetech.com ***SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING*** Death in the Victorian Family Jalland, Pat. Oxford University Press Inc., New York. 1996. "House of Mourning - Victorian Mourning & Funeral Customs in the 1890s" victoriana.com/VictorianPeriod/mourning.htm The Victorian Book of the Dead Woodyard, Chris. Kestral Publications, Chris Woodyard, 2014. "Victorian Mourning and Funerary Practices" victorianmonsters.wordpress.com/victorian-funerary-practices "How the Victorians Dealt with Death" owlcation.com/humanities/Victorian-era "A Victorian Obsession with Death" berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/04/05/death.html Beyond the Dark Veil The Thanatos Archive. Grand Central Press & Last Gasp, 2015.