Tag: death

How the world’s worst investor fleeced clients who couldn’t complain.

“What they are doing is profiting from the sale of humans.”

A series of losses prompts s.e. smith to wonder why, if it’s inevitable, we tend to view death as failure.

Jeannie’s father never spoke of his daughter who had died at 16, the mysterious half-sister who shared her name.

If reporting becomes excessive, it can do more harm than good.

It’s said about a lot of people, but true of only a few: There was something special about Edie.

On January 3, 1961, a nuclear reactor the size of a small grain silo exploded in the Idaho desert, causing one of the only recorded nuclear fatalities on U.S. soil.

Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?

Civil War monuments in the North erased an emancipated Black population. But the Sphinx looked to a new world: an integrated Africa and America.

“As Diana was a collective creation,” Mantel writes at the Guardian, “she was also a collective possession.”

A look at the process of alkaline hydrosis, a more eco-friendly type of cremation, and the growing movement behind it.

“In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”

Jeff Sharlet on how recovering from a life-threatening event takes place moment by moment.

To help demystify dying, Cory Taylor answers questions about what it’s like to have a terminal illness.

Kate Axelrod reflects on the last days of her grandmother’s life, and witnessing as her grandfather’s own decline helped him to survive losing his wife of 66 years.

The writer showed his students and friends how to remain an artist, even when one becomes a kind of cult figure.

With the onset of death doulas, no one need die alone.

Meet Fred. He’s cold-blooded, beady-eyed, a picky eater, and likely to outlive us all.

For her essay in the New Yorker, Kate Daloz relied on a precious set of letters to tell the story of her grandmother’s abortion.

Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne go behind the scenes of their multi-part series on women who die in childbirth.

Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.

Scientists closely monitor the last member of a species. Is there space in a creature’s DNA to consider the prospect of no tomorrow?

Seth Davis Branitz had an awful suspicion he’d feel relieved when, some day, his very troubled brother would pass. He had no idea about the other ends it would rapidly bring with it.

The author, speaker, and performance artist was far more than her final, heartbreaking Modern Love column.

Andrew McMillen writes on palliative care as a critical service, and of the “power and the grace” required to care for those who are terminally ill and grant their dying wish: to die peacefully, at home.

At Mother Jones, Julia Lurie reports on a rising trend: death by opioid withdrawal in jail. Read about how addict shame and silence, jail short-staffing, scant medical equipment, and a general apathy toward inmates make a deadly combination.

Michelle Allison pens an essay in The Atlantic our relationship to food and what really underlies our obsession with food choice and finding the “best” diet.

When you work the night shift for too long, the murders start to link up with one another, blending cause and effect in a centrifugal force that gnaws away at the city. The veteran reporters start to see this; the man gunned down one night is related to an ongoing gang dispute, which originates in […]

At The Walrus, Georgina Blanchard reflects on the stillbirth of her son, Charlie Showman.

What they don’t tell you about death—or what you don’t really understand until it happens close to you—is how permanent it is. In the months afterward I kept thinking to myself, all right, I get it. This is too painful. Let’s just take a little break from the loss. Let’s have a weekend off. A […]