It’s gross, but grossness by itself doesn’t violate securities laws. By Matt Levine. (Aug. 16, 2016)

James Woolley, a keyboardist who spent four years in Nine Inch Nails' touring unit, including at their legendary Woodstock '94 set, died this weekend.

Abortion debates. The right to die. Cloning. The edges of life are also ethical fault lines, where social values clash at tectonic pressures. In a pluralistic society, it’s no surprise that these are also the sites of our most entrenched debates... By Andrew Aghapour.

What do people do when they can’t afford end-of-life care?  By Mark Betancourt.

Jerika Bolen, who turned 14 just before Christmas, has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, an incurable genetic disease that often claims lives before adolescence. By Jim Collar.

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk” – Robert Bloch

The many precautions people have taken to keep corpses in their graves. By James Close. (May 18, 2016)

The daily work of a hospice nurse, who treats the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of people at the most vulnerable point of their lives. By Larissa MacFarquhar.

Be thankful you have a job. Be thankful you’re alive.​ By Luke O’Neil. (May 9, 2016)

The St. Petersburg Police Department officers responded to a call about a baby left abandoned in a stroller at the home.

In Victorian England after-death photographs became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief.

A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it's not clear who the new person would be. By Anders Sandberg. (May 10, ’16)

A young guard for the New Orleans Pelicans was shot and killed.

The popular animator and comic book creator has passed away following a battle with cancer.

Death turned his brother into a cipher, and it would take a return home to collect the pieces of a shattered life. By Philip Connors.

With the costs soaring and government aid falling short, people are turning to crowdfunding to bury their loved ones. By Joe Smith.

Jim Ridley — the editor, heart and soul of the Nashville Scene, a film critic with few peers, and one of the most beloved and...

When Decca Aitkenhead’s partner, Tony, died rescuing their son from a riptide, she believed she had survived the worst time of her life. But there was more to come.

Admit it, you’re morbidly curious. By Sarah Emerson.

An Ontario entrepreneur really wants to send your body down the drain. By Graeme Bayliss.