Remembering Dads Gone By
For those of us who have lost our dad, Father’s Day stirs many emotions. The holiday makes us think of happy times, sad times, scary ...
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Entering the Doorway of Death with Dina Taylor
For hospice aide Dina Taylor death is a doorway. Some people pass through that doorway with grace, others struggle.
The Death of Learning – A Visit To One Of The US’s Last Surviving Anatomy And Pathology Museums
In a busy Boston neighborhood of honking delivery trucks, hard-hatted construction men and urban hospitals is the Harvard Medical School’s Francis A. Countway Library of ...
What’s the definition of death? A case in California has doctors baffled.
“Nailah didn’t understand how Jahi could be dead when her skin was still warm and soft and she occasionally moved her arms, ankles, and hips.”
Are Robot Morticians Just Around The Corner?
We now rely on robots to find our way, find our mates, do our most difficult surgery, cook our coffee, go for a jog, and ...
A Precious Story of Stillborn Babies
Digital Dying recently wrote about a southern Louisiana reporter named John Desantis, “the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to ...
In These Tragic Times, Are There More Half-Staff Flags?
In the frigid lavender dawn, when many of us are still in bed, or clutching our warm coffee cups or huddled around stoves, or in ...
Just What The Heck is Holiday Heart?
The condition was first reported in the early 1970s, though it likely dates back to the invention of the wine goblet, approximately 12,000 years ago.
Elephants Love Their Dead – Is That Why We Love Them?
Do elephants have the power to vote?
Why Do We Vote for Coroners? (And Why Call Them Coroners..?)
Yes, there was an election the other day—though of course you already knew that. Because we live in a time when even races for county ...
OMG, a Celebrity Mortician
The funeral industry has a true celebrity, Caitlin Doughty. She is a mortician, a New York Times bestselling author, and a leader in the budding ...
People Are Dying, No One Is Crying (Updated)
Several years ago, our Justin Nobel discussed the the way some Middle Eastern cultures hire women to weep and wail at funerals. At the time, ...
The Media Is Obsessed with Florida’s Nursing Home Deaths—The Real Problem Is We’ve Abandoned the Elderly
The news was devastating, and it came in dribs and drabs. First, there were three dead. Then five. Then seven. The tally now rests at ...
Hurricane Harvey “Lonely Deaths”
Hurricane Harvey is responsible for killing at least 47 people in Texas. According to a story last week in the New York Times, at least ...
The Transgender Cemetery Struggle
At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio last year, Texas Senator Ted Cruz made a powerful and inflammatory statement.
