Suffocate City

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Did you know there are books out there, some shelved next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin? Would you know one if you held it in your hand? 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. Check out Megan's Website: https://meganrosenbloom.com/books/ Follow Megan on Twitter: @LibraryatNight

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. Warning: Mention of decapitation towards the end of the episode. 

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.

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 its impact, Henrietta Lacks, grave robbing, and the joys of YouTube paternity court.

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. *Heads up! We're throwing up a TW for suicide and child death for this episode.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today's episode features James Freeman of Freeman and Fugate Oddities Co! 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.

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.     Be sure to support these organizations mentioned in the episode: Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance https://nativefoodalliance.org/ Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women https://www.csvanw.org/ Freedom Fighters DC on IG @freedomfightersDC

We sat down with mother/daughter team Carol and Sara, 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!

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.

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. 

Who knew that yoga and death went hand-in-hand? Join us as we speak with Charlene (Instagram @yonahyoga) about how yoga and death are intertwined, her death doula training, and navigating grief.

What’s better than talking to a Mortician? How about talking with 2 Morticians?! In this episode, we’re joined with Morticians Elana and Brittany (Instagram @hearsenurse). Join us as we dive into their funerary preparedness practices, changing gender stereotypes in the industry, and the experience of being an advisor/role as Andi on the show Haunting on Hill House.

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.

We had the honor to be joined with enlightened witches Alex (Instagram @alexpatafio) and Haley (Witch Mama, @vvitch_mama and @atl_craft). We just scratched the surface on all the knowledge they have to offer on areas like their path to the practice, what it means to be a part of a collective, and how death has made their presence known lately.

Introducing Minisode #1! 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

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. Follow them on Instagram @death.wives Check out their website www.deathwives.org for more information on the Death Wives Collective and upcoming course details.

From sourcing animals for scientific contributions to the taxidermy of BDSM squirrels, we cover it all with rogue taxidermy artist Emily Binard. Check out and follow Emily Binard on the following: Website - https://www.ebinard.com/ Instagram - @ebinard

Welcome to Suffocate City, a podcast hosts where Ally & Avery talk about cemeteries, funerals, death, and the relationship the living have with the dead. Join us in this first episode as we introduce ourselves! Follow us on Instagram @SuffocateCity_Podcast and on Twitter @SuffocateCity