understanding death
How To Tell If A Person Is Actually Dead
Don’t laugh, people have woken up in morgues over less.
Why Your Sense Of Smell Could Predict Your Death
Do you smell that? No? We might have some bad news for you then...
First Funeral Selfies. Now Corpse Selfies. Please Stop!
#CorpseSelfie
The Everplans 2015 Summer Reading List
Kick back with a good book…and some cathartic musing on our collective mortality (in a good way).
Identifying A Body In Real Life Is Nothing Like TV
The lack of drama is definitely a good thing.
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Actress Tilda Swinton Isn't Afraid Of Death Or Vampires
Source: Michael Clayton, Warner Home Video
While promoting her new vampire flick Only Lovers Left Alive actress Tilda...
Video: Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Dying?
Our friend Kathy Kastner of BestEndings.com has put together a very down-to-earth and helpful video series dealing with...
The Ultimate End-of-Life Plan
Author Katy Butler’s new book, “Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death,” which chronicles her mother’s...
Scott Simon Shares His Mother's Last Days
Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, has been sitting with his mother in a hospital Intensive Care Unit...
How Not to Die
In the May issue of The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch looks into the work of two doctors, Dr. Angelo Volandes and his wife Dr....
A Good Death: Photos
What does a good death look like? Photographer Joshua Bright offers one answer to this question with a series of photographs...
How We Die
How did humans die in the 20th century? The folks over at Information is Beautiful asked this question, and answered it with...
1 in 3 Seniors Dies With (Not Of) Dementia
This week the Alzheimer's Association released a report stating that 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's disease or another...
A Daughter's Reflections on Her Father's Death
In Issue 11 of The Magazine (a subscription-based online and iPhone/iPad app that features fascinating short articles on a...
How Doctors Die, Redux
Last month we brought you a story via BoingBoing that asked if doctors die differently than the rest of us. (The answer, in...
You Are Going to Die
Following last weekend's piece by Ron Lieber about getting your sh*t together, which we blogged about, the NYT has published...
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