Family Hard Luck: On Motherlessness
It never really hurts, except when you allow yourself to imagine: what if things had turned out differently?
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Humor I’ve Learned the Beauty of Living Life Fully
I’ve embraced the beauty that comes with living fully. Living the whole way. You know, being alive all the time, 24/7, no breaks.
Books Signs You May Be Dying In A Victorian Novel
How to tell if you are dying, and also fictional.
Art “Remember You’re Not Dead Yet”: Reverse Memento Mori In Western Art
"Memento mori" is stupid advice, ART. "Remember you will die"? How about remember YOU'RE already dead, and also shut up?
Books Things Men In Literature Have Died From
The pitiless sea!
Aging “You could count on Leonard for that kind of thing”
Leonard Nimoy.
Health Sunday at the Children’s Hospital
A chaplain on her work with pediatric oncology patients and families at the children's hospital.
Books A Literary Child’s Guide to Her Dead Mother
Your Literary Dead Mother: a guide to her secret dressing room and bricked-off garden and the horse that killed her.
Humor Alternatives to Killing Your Darlings
Killing your darlings is the kindest option. We have others.
Aging We Now Live In A World Without Mitford Sisters
The last of the Mitfords is gone. All is trash.
science An Interview With Two Female Cryonicists
Sarah Wambold talks to two female cryonicists about life extension, stigma, and selfishness.
Family Death And Ice Cream On Mass Ave
Julie Morse on death and ice cream.
Animals Aristotle the Turtle: Dead Pet Chronicles
E.B. Bartels begins her "Dead Pet Chronicles" with the sad tale of Aristotle, the turtle her family allowed to escape.
Work A Day In the Life of a Forensic Pathologist
Veena Singh shares a glimpse of what an average day is like for a forensic pathologist.
Humor The Great Playwrights Ranked By Cause of Death
John Leavitt examines the most thrilling deaths of our greatest playwrights.
