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Charlie Ambler

May 194 min read

A Short Guide to Death

It’s a known fact that humans are, statistically speaking, losing touch with their corporeal selves. Our bodies are…

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Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

Sep 202 min read

I struggle with everything left inside me that’s human because I live among vultures who fancy me strange fruit ripe for the picking.

rachel stone in The Awl

5 days ago8 min read

Faces of Death

A curious collection of famous death masks, from Audubon to Whitman

Tasneem Kagalwalla

8 hrs ago1 min read

In loving memory…

This is not a tribute or dedication
neither my words nor me
are worthy to honor you
they can never be.
These are simply…

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Jeffrey Field

Sep 181 min read

Losing What’s Left

Kill Me Now and Torn and Already Dead Haiku and Days Like This are autobiographical, reflecting my inner state.

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Amin Matalqa in The Mission

Sep 193 min read

A New Blog for a New Chapter

This is my first blog since my wife Claire passed away 15 months ago. It’s a new page on a new site because life gives you no choice but to keep going. For good or bad, as long as your heart is beating and brain functioning, you have to make decisions and choices every day…

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j.s.lamb

Aug 272 min read

‘They were sweet, very loving …’

Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were stabbed to death in their home last Thursday. They were nurse…

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Laura Yan in Pacific Standard

5 days ago8 min read

Is Human Composting the Future of Urban Burial?

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Siddaq Kler.

Jun 271 min read

Brutally Turned Grey.

When they woke up that day,

It was normal like it had always been.

Little did they know that by the end of it,

Was to occur one of the greatest mass killings America had ever seen.

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Gerard Mclean

5 days ago1 min read

Instead of facing death as a natural process and talking about how to prepare for it, we avoid it until it is too late. We hire funeral directors to make important decisions and emba...

Is Human Composting the Future of Urban Burial?

Laura Yan

91

Not me. Got everything planned, paid for and written out, even my obit… it’s short.

I am under no delusion about my value here when I’m alive. I am a set of functions; learn life basics, procreate, raise kids to adulthood so they have the skills to ensure the survival of the human species, hang out in the interim, have a…

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