Death Comes Home

Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.

Best New Artist2009 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition

2009 / April Dembosky / Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

Death Comes Home is a portrait of three families who have chosen to forego the funeral director and prescribed memorial to instead care for their dead at home.

Part of a growing national "home funeral" movement, these families are redefining America's death rituals.

Death Comes Home won the Best New Artist Award in the 2009 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. The story was produced with advisors Claire Schoen and Cynthia Gorney.


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April Dembosky

April Dembosky is a writer and radio producer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she covers arts & culture, health & death, religion & philosophy.


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