Medium
• Digital C-type print

Intent
• Statistics show that 146 000 people die everyday in the U.S.. Statistics also show that only 10% of all deaths occur in the hospital. Where are people dying? Why don't we ever see it? These portraits of the dead take place in ordinary places and in ordinary ways. One of the main intentions is to bring places and events that we know of but never experience to our attention.

The Work
Status
-Complete.

C.O.D. #001_Overdose

C.O.D. 002_Severed Spinal Cord

C.O.D. 003_Heart Attack

The Title
In this series each title has three parts. The first part is the abbreviation of the name of the series, which is Cause of Death abbreviated C.O.D. The abbreviation has reference to D.O.A. (dead on arrival) and Credit on Delivery and in a tangental way to B.C. and A.D., which marks the life of Christ. Credit on delivery is a shipping term that means a package will be paid for upon its delivery. In this context we can apply that to the body and the afterlife. It is only after dying that one knows whether or not they are going to Heaven or Hell whether or not they will recieve payment for their life so to speak. The last reference is of interest because although i never show my face in the photographs I am the subject in all of them. The only other time we know of where someone has died more than once is in the life Christ. In a way I am resurrected after each photo only to die again. The second part of the title is the number. The number identifies the pieces place in the series and the number of times I have died. The third part identifies the cause of death.