24 episodes

The Mortician’s Daughter brings you a monthly meditation on the macabre to help you face your existential crisis head on. From rigor mortis to dark goddesses of the graveyard, The Mortician’s Daughter will be covering an array of grim and occasionally gruesome topics. All things death are open to exploration...

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    • Society & Culture

The Mortician’s Daughter brings you a monthly meditation on the macabre to help you face your existential crisis head on. From rigor mortis to dark goddesses of the graveyard, The Mortician’s Daughter will be covering an array of grim and occasionally gruesome topics. All things death are open to exploration...

    Episode 024: Murder for Hire

    Episode 024: Murder for Hire

    Join us for a discussion about Contract Killers and the sometimes frightening, sometimes stupid Murder-for-Hire schemes from American History. From mobsters during the Prohibition to love torn asunder, we’ll be talking about cold-blooded killers and the people who paid them...
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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 20 min
    Episode 023: Interview with Elena Rose About Inclusive Griefcare

    Episode 023: Interview with Elena Rose About Inclusive Griefcare

    We have a very special interview to kick off the New Year with the Reverend Elena Rose Vera -- artist, activist, public speaker, ordained minister, and Filipina-Ashkenazi trans woman -- to discuss inclusive deathcare and grief support...
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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 43 min
    Episode 022: Haunted Castles

    Episode 022: Haunted Castles

    Everyone loves a Hallmark Christmas movie castle, but what if that castle was haunted? On this episode, we’re continuing our Hauntings series with another installment, but this time we’re focusing on Haunted Castles and the ghosts (or demon dogs) that roam the hallways and courtyards of these historic estates.


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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 19 min
    Episode 021: Rachel Essig at River View Cemetery

    Episode 021: Rachel Essig at River View Cemetery

    Welcome to the launch of our new interview series with other funeral industry professionals about their work and, probably, their work ethics as we delve deeper into deathcare.
    Rachel Essig, Executive Director of River View Cemetery and Funeral Home kicks off the series with a conversation about this historic space in Portland and the future of funerals.
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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 33 min
    Episode 020: Dark Goddesses of the Graveyard

    Episode 020: Dark Goddesses of the Graveyard

    In this episode, we explore the fearsome Goddesses of the Graveyard. These dark goddesses bring forth destruction, offer sanctuary to the dead, or maybe they just have a lot of rage.
    For this initial installment, we’ll be discussing Persephone, ruler of the Underworld, the Haitian graveyard protector Maman Brigitte, and the fierce demon-slaying Hindu goddess Kali.
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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 15 min
    Episode 019: Near-Death Experiences

    Episode 019: Near-Death Experiences

    If you suddenly find yourself floating through a long, dark tunnel toward a bright light, you might have just died.
    In this episode, we discuss NDEs, or near-death experiences, and some of the theories surrounding this phenomenon. Around the world, people of different cultural and religious backgrounds report similar experiences amongst those who have died and then come back from the brink... 
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    Written and narrated by Carly Schorman
    Produced and Edited by Mark Anderson
    Theme song by Doug Maxwell
    Hear The Mortician’s Daughter on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, Goodpods or wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Check out the antics, memes, and more of The Mortician’s Daughter on Instagram and TikTok.

    • 24 min

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