“What it means to live an optimized life and why Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint just doesn’t get it.”
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The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
“The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.”
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If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
“Perhaps part of Orli’s legacy is insisting on this conversation.”
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What do you do after you accidentally kill a child?
“Every day he tries to forgive himself. He fails most days.”
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What It Means to Speak With the Dead
“A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide.”
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Fear as a Game
“What can the philosophy of games tell us about our odd impulse to scare ourselves?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring notable stories from Paul Solotaroff, Maddie Oatman, Gabriel Smith, Meg Bernhard, and Alexandra Horowitz.
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Harvard, the Human Remains Trade, and Collectors Who Fuel the Market
“At some point in Cedric Lodge’s almost 30-year career in the Harvard Medical School morgue, working mostly alone and far from the eyes of his supervisors, he allegedly decided to get a piece of this trade.”
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How a B.C. Student Died after Overdosing in a Victoria Dorm — and the Major Mistakes her Parents Say were Made that Night
“My daughter’s death was entirely preventable.”