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Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story

The Heart Wing

by Heather Lanier January 10, 2023January 18, 2023

The muscle that never stops, until the very end. Is your heart a hardworking pump or a mystic miracle?

Posted inFeature

The Gisoo Tree

by Mojgan Ghazirad November 8, 2022November 7, 2022

Cutting hair, a mourning, a protest, an act of defiance.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Great Beyond

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 13, 2021October 19, 2022

“While it is not new for technology to mediate our relationship to death, the interactivity and public-ness of in-memoriam profiles is distinctly novel.”

Posted inNonfiction

A Bike Race, Family, and Loss

by Carolyn Wells July 1, 2021October 18, 2022

“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”

Posted inReading List

I Will Outlive My Cat: A Reading List on Pet Death

by Alison Fishburn September 24, 2019October 19, 2022

Alison Fishburn shares seven longreads on how humans experience the death of their pets.

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning

by rachelvoronacote May 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Nowadays, we live online, and so we grieve here too. But there are limits to the comfort digital mourning can provide.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Buried in the Cowboy Way, with His Tail to the Wind’

by Krista Stevens May 15, 2019October 19, 2022

“There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Species of Grief

by Sari Botton May 1, 2019October 19, 2022

In the wake of losing both her father and her dog in the space of six months, Meghan Daum muses on different experiences of loss, grief, time and aging.

Posted inEditor's Pick

To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time

by Sari Botton April 24, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Posted inBooks, Quotes

The Pain of Loss, Through Centuries and Books

by michelleweber January 31, 2019October 19, 2022

“My father is dead, I said to myself, my father is dead. Again and again I said it, and still I failed to grasp what it meant.”

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