How do you destigmatize a place that’s as scary as a cemetery? You could follow the steps of Talk Death and make it a place to play.

During Halloween season, Talk Death — a group founded by two Hamiltonians which aims to make people more comfortable around death and dying — has been organizing scavenger hunts in cemeteries across Canada and the U.S. in order to try and make them less scary.

This year was no different, according to organizers, around 1,000 people across Canada and the U.S. went to their local cemeteries to look for clues and submit them to win prizes.

“People see these spaces as spaces of death. I think that they can remind people of their mortality. Which was the point of these kinds of cemeteries,” said Talk Death co-founder Jeremy Cohen while at the Hamilton Ce

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