Gary Laderman is a professor of American religious history and cultures At Emory University. He teaches and writes about death and dying, religion and sexuality, and sacred drugs. He is the author of Don’t Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality. His other books include an exploration of the sacred in the new American religious landscape: Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States; two books on the history of death in America: The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 and Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America. Connect with Gary Laderman Website: https://garyladerman.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/garyladerman/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/garyladerman?lang=en Connect us here iTunes: https://apple.co/3W14wjk Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42S3mcb