“She fell mysteriously ill while living in a remote cabin with my stepdad, and I suspected it was a cry for help. Then came the unexpected diagnosis: folie à deux.”
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‘Do You Have a Family?’: Midlife With No Kids, Ageing Parents–and No Crisis
“Three generations: dead, old, and middle-aged.”
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Losing My Dad in Installments
“Back then, it felt easier to say goodbye to each part of him as they left.”
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Losers Keepers
“Better to imagine some subterranean Gollum crooning over my memories than to accept them being lost completely.”
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When I’m 125?
“What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it.”
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The Longevity Hot Spots That Weren’t
‘Our culture has become obsessed with “blue zones,” where people purportedly live longer. But does the underlying research stand up to scrutiny?”
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Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife
“The frame changes everything.”
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Death and the Salesmen
“As the city runs out of burial space, a series of boardroom and legal battles in the booming bereavement industry could determine the future of death in Toronto.”