Corpse
Exquisite Corpse – Writing Style
Dig Your Own Corpse The exquisite corpse is a technique that can be used as an icebreaker, a game, or just a way to bump a roomful of writers out of a rut. In general, the technique involves “blind” collaboration … ...
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Memento Mori
Memento Mori: Remember Your Mortality Memento mori; remember mortality, is derived from a Latin phrase as a reminder to “remember your death”, “remember that you are mortal”. During ancient Roman times it was customary to maintain a slave behind a … ...
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Death, Psychopomp
Psychopomp: Your Guide to the Afterlife It is a common belief across many cultures that the newly dead will have an escort from the earthly life into the realm of the afterlife. This escort may be an angel or a … ...
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Death, Personification
Death On Two Legs Death has been seen as an actual character since the beginning of history. Death was depicted as the grim reaper who actually took the life of the living. He is most commonly seen as a skeleton … ...
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Dead Body, Corpse, Body Snatching
Body Snatching: Less Give, More Take Before 1832 in the United Kingdom, medical professionals and scientists turned to body snatching for a supply of fresh bodies to dissect and study. Because only a limited amount of bodies were supplied legally … ...
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Postmortem Photography
Postmortem Photography: Strike A Pose & Stay In 1839, with the invention of the daguerreotype, photography became more affordable to the average person than the previous method of commissioning a painting. Loved ones began photographing their deceased family members after … ...
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Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse is an art form invented by surrealists in 1925. A corpse is depicted with many sayings written in speaking bubble form around it’s head. The different says are often contributed by many different people. It is believed that … ...
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