In the town of Prestolia, Slovenia, there's a small stone church built on a great stone slab.

And inside that church is a strange medieval mural.

The mural depicts a sort of dance, a procession.

And everyone's in it, the royalty, the peasants, the clergy, the kids,

and they're all walking together, except in between each person holding their hands

is a smiling skeleton, leading them gleefully towards their final destination.

They're kind of dancing along the skeletons and all the various people,

and that it ends in just a pit that it dumped into.

And that is your grave.

I'm Dylan Thoris, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we're taking a dance lesson in the two steps that we were all born today.

That's after this.

I am a mortician, probably most notably, but I also talk about death acceptance and death awareness,

and I'm an advocate for a new future, a new death-involved future for our populace.

That's the weirdest description of me I've ever given.

Usually I have much more of a succinct.

I'll back off, and I'll ask you just, what is your name?

Kaelin Doty, I can do that one.

Can you tell me a little bit about how you spend your time?

I do several things.

I own a small funeral home here in Los Angeles.

I founded a nonprofit called The Order of the Good Death, which has death awareness and acceptance.

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