Suffocate City

Welcome to Suffocate City, a podcast where hosts Ally & Avery talk about cemeteries, funerals, death, and the living's relationship with the dead.

Episode 3: Water Cremation with The DeathWives 11/29/2022

Episode 3: Water Cremation with The DeathWives In this next episode, The DeathWives return to Suffocate City! Can you believe it’s been over 2 years since our last episode with them? Join us as we chat with them about their very important ecofriendly death work. We learn all about water cremation (yup, cremation doesn't always mean fire!), and how this gentle process nourishes the earth. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/25156458

Episode 2: The Mortal Path Alliance with Anna and Clark 10/22/2022

Episode 2: The Mortal Path Alliance with Anna and Clark This Suffocate City Saturday we’re excited to bring you the next episode of season 3 with Anna and Clark of The Mortal Path Alliance. Join us as we discuss how they use their magical practices and different elements, like water, to build up their community and provide spiritual assistance through the process of death, dying, and transition. Warning: We might get a little sidetracked talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and why Willow is one of the best witchy characters of all time. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/24768414

Episode 1: Seaside Cemeteries & Burials with Ally & Avery 09/26/2022

Episode 1: Seaside Cemeteries & Burials with Ally & Avery We’re officially back with SEAson 3! This season explores the many ways death and water intersect, so dive into our first episode as we reveal strong feelings about different bodies of water, and plunge into various seaside cemeteries and burials. We've got some fun, morbid, and spooky episodes planned for you this season, so grab your personal flotation device and hang on for dear life. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/24497037

Episode 12: Getting Weird with The Weird Crew Podcast 02/01/2022

Episode 12: Getting Weird with The Weird Crew Podcast It's a podcastception! We sat down with Cynthia and Anthony from The Weird Crew Podcast. We discuss dying on airplanes, eggplant pics, flying fears, and being on both sides of an inflight emergency. Follow them on Instagram: The Weird Crew Podcast @weirdcrewpodcast and listen anywhere you get your podcasts! Cynthia @jet.lag.crew Anthony @weirdanomaly /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/21990062

Episode 11: Stay Curious with Lady Teals Curios 01/19/2022

Episode 11: Stay Curious with Lady Teals Curios After a short winter hiatus, we're back with Katie from @ladytealscurios. Join us as we talk about how religion influenced her view of death growing up, and how her podcast encourages you to always stay curious about life, death, and the afterlife. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/21830825

Episode 10, Season 2: Restorations with Mortician Consuela 11/20/2021

Episode 10, Season 2: Restorations with Mortician Consuela Join us in this episode as we meet Consuela, a Mortician that believes anyone can be presentable for a viewing. Whether it's just a hand to hold or a foot to see, sometimes that's all someone needs to help process grief. She also specializes in makeup, so make sure to tune in if you want to hear how she makes the dead as glamorous as they were in life. Trigger Warning: Suicide /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/21227024

Episode 9, Season 2: Books Bound In Human Skin With Megan Rosenbloom 10/08/2021

Episode 9, Season 2: Books Bound In Human Skin With Megan Rosenbloom Did you know there are books out there, some shelved next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin? Join us as Death Positive Librarian Megan Rosenbloom discusses her book Dark Archives: A Librarian’s into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. Learn the process behind detecting human skin books and the public’s reaction behind publishing a book that’s about other books that are bound in human skin. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/20748203

Episode 8, Season 2: Mortuary School 101 with Camille 09/16/2021

Episode 8, Season 2: Mortuary School 101 with Camille Join us as Camille aka TikTok’s @MortuaryStudent101 addresses the most popular questions from her TikTok followers. Hear what it’s like to be a student at PIMS and how the school advocates for more diversity in the funeral industry. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/20490116

Episode 7, Season 2: Funeral Consumer Alliance with John 08/10/2021

Episode 7, Season 2: Funeral Consumer Alliance with John Join us and John Lantz from the Funeral Consumer Alliance of Georgia as we discuss how his team is taking radical actions to empower the consumer to make informed decisions. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/20096717

Episode 6, Season 2: Grave Inequality with The CemeterySista 07/27/2021

Episode 6, Season 2: Grave Inequality with The CemeterySista We're back with a fresh episode! We spoke with The CemeterySista, who works to fill in the gaps of Black history through preserving and protecting Black cemeteries. We touch on cemetery racism and it's impact, Henrietta Lacks, grave robbing, and the joys of YouTube paternity court. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/19950887

Episode 5, Season 2: Anonymous Autopsy Tech Talk 07/09/2021

Episode 5, Season 2: Anonymous Autopsy Tech Talk In this episode, we got to hang out with an (anonymous) badass Autopsy Tech! Come hang out with us as she shares what goes into performing an autopsy, working with everyone from Investigators to Funeral Directors, and why being an Autopsy Tech is one of the best jobs in the world. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/19762526

Episode 4, Season 2: Death Anthropologist with Kalisto 06/30/2021

Episode 4, Season 2: Death Anthropologist with Kalisto Did you miss us? We're back, baby! We spoke with Kalisto aka @deathanthropologist, a Funeral Director and Embalming Intern. He's also an advocate for disability justice, the LGBQIA+ community, and decolonization. Join in our discussion as we talk about everything from the first black embalmer, preplanning in the trans community, and the hate funeral florists get. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/19665410

Minisode 3: WandaVision 05/12/2021

Minisode 3: WandaVision In this minisode, we finaaaaally get around to talking about WandaVision! Did we love it or did we LOVE it? Join us as we discuss how the show cleverly addresses the heavy theme of grief, death, and loss. We also spend plenty of time talking about how the whole cast can get it. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/19085816

Episode 3, Season 2: Death & Lace with Elena 04/28/2021

Episode 3, Season 2: Death & Lace with Elena In this episode, Elena Kangy-Loux joins us! Elena is a lacemaker, historian, and sentient pile of doilies. Listen in as we talk about the intersection of lace & death throughout history, her TikTok series "Beyond the Veil'', designing an iconic collar for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and when the business of lace was just to die for. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/18902627

Episode 2, Season 2: Precious Creature with Lauren 03/31/2021

Episode 2, Season 2: Precious Creature with Lauren We were lucky enough to sit down with pet mortician and grief advocate Lauren, aka Precious Creature. We talk about the grief of losing a beloved pet, memorial taxidermy and skeletal preparations of pets (and why it isn't weird!), her ossuary passion project, and how our furry familiars are like family to us. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/18558755

Episode 1, Season 2: Dunzo with Troy 03/16/2021

Episode 1, Season 2: Dunzo with Troy We truly enjoyed hanging out with Troy, host of the podcast Dunzo. Join us as we kickoff Season 2 discussing celebrity deaths and the unique process of grieving the passing of a celebrity. We touch on Brittany Murphy's untimely demise, mourning someone you've never met, how Betty White is holding together the fabric of reality, and much much more. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/18356615

Episode 13, Season 1: Victorian Mourning Rituals with Ally & Avery 03/03/2021

Episode 13, Season 1: Victorian Mourning Rituals with Ally & Avery To close out season 1, we go back to the beginning when it was just Ally & Avery chatting. Join us as we visit a time where looking death in the face was unavoidable and people outwardly displayed their grief through Victorian Mourning Rituals. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/18181607

Episode 12, Season 1: The Wonderful World of Dr. Paul Koudounaris 02/19/2021

Episode 12, Season 1: The Wonderful World of Dr. Paul Koudounaris In this episode, we’re joined with a prominent figure in the death positive community, Dr. Paul Koudounaris. We explore erotic hauntings (Yes, you read that right!), animal welfare graves, experiencing death culture all over the world, and his accomplished author and cosplaying cat, Baba. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/18005267

Episode 11, Season 1: James Freeman of Freeman and Fugate Oddities Co. 02/03/2021

Episode 11, Season 1: James Freeman of Freeman and Fugate Oddities Co. Today's episode features James Freeman of Freeman & Fugate Oddities! James schools us all about Houdini (Seriously, we think he's Houdini's #1 fan!), the history of Ouija boards, and honoring relics of the past and sometimes using them as a way to overcome our fears. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/17812349

Episode 10, Season 1: History TikTok with EnbyHistorian 01/19/2021

Episode 10, Season 1: History TikTok with EnbyHistorian We're back from our holiday hiatus with an extra special episode! We sat down with TikTok extraordinaire @EnbyHistorian. We cover a lot of ground about history, death, and TikTok! We talk shocking medical history, opium for kids, bloodletting, trepanation, frozen mummies, earliest ancestral burials, and MUCH more. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/17614103

Episode 9, Season 1: The Graveside Ladies with Carol & Sara 12/02/2020

Episode 9, Season 1: The Graveside Ladies with Carol & Sara We sat down with mother/daughter team Carol and Sarah, aka The Graveside Ladies (Instagram @the_graveside_ladies). We spoke with this power duo about tips & tricks for cleaning graves, researching genealogies, and how restoring final resting places is truly a labor of love. Join us for our most wholesome episode yet! /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/17041802

Episode 8, Season 1: Corpse Altar with Jeanne & Mike 11/19/2020

Episode 8, Season 1: Corpse Altar with Jeanne & Mike From their many travels around the world, Jeanne and Mike of Corpse Altar (Instagram @corpse_altar) have discovered an abundance of unique gravesites and have even flipped off a couple (they deserved it). Join us as we track their journey of documenting eccentric grave marker designs and uncovering their origins. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16881497

Episode 7, Season 1: Summum Mummies & More with Erin 11/13/2020

Episode 7, Season 1: Summum Mummies & More with Erin Did you know that not only is Utah the Mecca of the Mormon faith, but you can also get mummified there too? Thanks to Corky Ra and his creation of Summum, you can and even have an orgy near his sarcophagus while you're still alive. Join our favorite Anthropology nerd Erin (Instagram @justmakingitallup) as she tells us what it’s like growing up in Utah and schools us on several origins of mummies. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16804850

Episode 6, Season 1: Shavasana with Charlene 11/05/2020

Episode 6, Season 1: Shavasana with Charlene Who knew that yoga and death went hand-in-hand? Join us as we speak with Charlene about how yoga and death are intertwined, her death doula training, and navigating grief. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16701308

Minisode 2: Rampant Radium 10/21/2020

Minisode 2: Rampant Radium In this first episode of the “Beauty That Kills” minisode series, we talk about the radioactive chemical compound Radium. From lipstick to lingerie, discover how it sensationally found its way into every product until it started gruesomely killing young women at the Radium Dial Company. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16497005

Minisode 1: Positivity and Patreon 09/28/2020

Minisode 1: Positivity and Patreon Introducing our first minisode! No guests, just us! In this bite-sized episode, we gush about the overwhelming positive podcast response and announce our Patreon for those who just can't get enough. Check it out at Patreon.com/suffocatecity /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16191788

Episode 3, Season 1: Death Wives with Erin & Lauren 09/23/2020

Episode 3, Season 1: Death Wives with Erin & Lauren We got to spend some time with the super rad Death Wives duo Lauren and Erin! Join us as we take a deep dive into areas of death & dying, to embalm or not to embalm, the obvious subject of exploding caskets, and much, much more. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/16133390

Episode 2, Season 1: Taxidermy with Emily Binard 09/08/2020

Episode 2, Season 1: Taxidermy with Emily Binard From sourcing animals for scientific contributions to the taxidermy of BDSM squirrels, we cover it all with rogue taxidermy artist Emily Binard. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/15936956

Episode 1, Season 1: Meet Your Makers 08/15/2020

Episode 1, Season 1: Meet Your Makers Welcome to Suffocate City, a podcast hosts where Ally & Avery talk about cemeteries, funerals, death, and the living's relationship with the dead. /episode/index/show/suffocatecity/id/15623024

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