After her mother’s passing, Jane Ratcliffe considers the role everyday objects play in a good death.
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The Ghosts of the Glacier
As Alpine glaciers recede in alarming speed, they reveal more and more bodies of people who’d died tragically on the ice, some of them considered missing for decades.
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A Birth Plan for Dying
In this personal essay, Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
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Disney World: A Surprisingly Good Place to Grieve
“To my surprise, Disney World was not a difficult place to be while in mourning. To me it didn’t feel like an escape from grief, so much as a continued break from unendurable real life.”
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Oh! Small-bany! Part 2
The second chapter in Novelist Elisa Albert’s Albany “quartet.” Notes from an awful winter.
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O, Small-bany! Part 2: Winter
Notes from an awful winter.
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Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
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Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Giving Up the Ghost
After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.
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Sliding Toward Disaster
Water parks — competing to have the tallest, fastest, scariest slides — invent their own attractions and monitor their own safety, creating a deadly conflict of interest.