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Ushering My Father to a (Mostly) Good Death
Karen Brown recalls conspiring with her father in his final weeks to find some humor in the pain.
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Every Parent Wants to Protect Their Child. I Never Got the Chance
To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born. By Jen Gann.
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Caput Mortuum, An Earthy Brown Made of Bodies (or Minerals!)
Cultural histories of unusual hues. By Katy Kelleher.
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Running for His Life
One Marine learned that you can’t outpace your demons or suicidal thoughts. But it doesn’t hurt to try. By Devon Heinen.
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The Downloadable Brain: We’re Closer Than We Think to Immortality
Stanley Bing considers rooting for the bad guys in search of eternal life.
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Holly Butcher’s moving final letter goes viral after death
A Heartbreaking letter written by a dying young woman is going viral after she passed away last week.
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Photos: Dog stuck in tree for almost 60 years without rotting
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum—and one of the trees has Stuckie the dog.
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Caskets
Damien Jurado
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Lifeguard
LarzRanda
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Fukushima heroes still fighting effects of radiation, stress and guilt
Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of 2011, selfless Japanese workers battled nuclear-reactor meltdown, and thousands of US troops provided disaster relief. Today, many are counting the cost to their mental and physical health. By Rob Gilhooly.
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‘It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room’
When pediatric surgeon Allan Goldstein entered the operating room to separate conjoined twins, he did so with the knowledge that one would have to die in order to save the other. He recalls the enormous surgical and ethical challenges.
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How to Not Die in America
I am lucky not for surviving the infection, but for being a member of a shrinking class of Americans whose lives can absorb a trauma of this magnitude. By Molly Osberg.
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How Was Your Day?
Suitable Films
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory
W. D. Snodgrass remembers seeing Robert Frost during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Frost was rejoicing at the prospect of devastating nuclear war.
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The Difference a Meal Makes: On Losing the Ability to Eat Solid Food
Introducing Hard to Swallow, a new column by Kayla Whaley about nourishment, disability, and living with a massive dietary restriction.
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U.S. body brokers supply world with tons of limbs, torsos and heads
Since 2008, body parts from American donors have been exported to at least 45 nations. Demand is highest where customs limit selling or dissecting the dead. By John Shiffman, Reade Levinson.
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The Victorian woman who drew pictures of ghosts
Georgiana Houghton claimed her artistic talent came from the dead. By Paul Gallagher.
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Asleep
The Smiths
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Why Sirius XM Should Stop Playing Ted Nugent
Tim Sommer argues that Sirius XM should ban Nugent over his Parkland school shooting comments.
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Do you really stay conscious after being decapitated?
Decapitation is a surefire way to deliver a quick and painless death, right? In actuality, an increasingly large body of historical and scientific evidence suggests that beheading doesn't, in fact, deliver instant death.
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