We often feel unsure about what to say to a friend with a serious illness, so we fall back on clichés.

Up to half of all patients who survive emergency medical treatment in the intensive care unit have mental problems when they return home. Doctors studying the problem say it starts with delirium.

NHK Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung conducting

The weekend before the fires I attended a grief workshop sponsored by the climate change group. They told us grief processed on one’s own turns to despair, but grief processed communally becomes medicine. Now that we knew the reality of climate change, we would grieve the Earth. That way grief wouldn’t hold us back when it was time to mobilize. To prepare us, they drew two circles on the board. Your Comfort Zone was written inside one circle. In the second circle, some distance from the first, they wrote, Where the Magic Happens. By Christina Nichol.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Urbański conducting

Eric Solomon considers Mississippi’s HB 1523 & Zawadski v. Brewer Funeral Services in light of SCOTUS’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.

When the war finally came to an end, artists on both sides had to face the problem of how to paint the peace. By Michael Prodger.

Tom Waits

In Japan, ghost stories are not to be scoffed at, but provide deep insights into the fuzzy boundary between life and death. By Christopher Harding.

Kate Tempest

When a man had a heart attack while laying sod in his front yard, first responders not only saved him, but they also finished the job for him. By Christina Zdanowicz. (July 9, 2018)

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer’s. By Stephen Granade.

Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place. By Roy Scranton.

Dammit, you big stupid orange dog, I love you.

In 1997 photographer Chris Leslie taught basic camera techniques at Sarajevo’s Bjelave orphanage and sent the children off to capture their city. This year he returned to see how their lives had unfolded.

Julie-Marie Strange reflects on our relationship with death in the modern world.

An electronics repair company gives a compassionate farewell to mechanical pets, with a traditional ceremony held in a historic temple. By James Burch.

Photographer Jayanti  Seiler is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography.  From her project ‘Of One And The Other’.

Peter Jackson

Larkin Poe