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The Fall of the Cherry King
Arthur Mondella led a double life: running a family business in Brooklyn and secretly growing marijuana under his factory; when it was exposed, he killed himself.
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Moral injury — the quiet epidemic of soldiers haunted by what they did during wartime
By Amanda Taub
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When Brain Surgery Goes Wrong
In “Do No Harm,” one of Britain’s foremost neurosurgeons offers an anatomy of error.
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My First Mistake
In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required.” By Simon Winchester. (2013)
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The Last Day of Her Life
When Sandy Bem found out she had Alzheimer’s, she resolved that before the disease stole her mind, she would kill herself. The question was, when?
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How My Friend Saved Me When Death Took the Mother of My Children
His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best friend came to help out for a couple weeks. And he never left.
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Everything I know about a good death I learned from my cat
My cat has been dying for the last two years. It is normal to me now — it is simply the state of affairs. There's a rhythm to her medication: prednisone and urosodiol in the morning, urosodiol again in the evening, chemo every other day, a vitamin B shot once a week. And now, toward the end, painkillers...
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This is what happens after you die
Most would rather not think about it, but that breakdown gives birth to new life.
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Doctors’ Secret Language for Assisted Suicide
In most states, where euthanasia is illegal, physicians can offer only hints and euphemisms for patients to interpret.
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Death and Neglect at [New York’s] Rikers Women’s Jail
Medical lapses are endangering inmates at the Rose M. Singer Center.
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The Great Silence
Allora & Calzadilla’s video installation The Great Silence (2014) centers on the world’s largest radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, home to the last remaining population of a critically endangered species of parrots, Amazona vittata. For the work, Allora & Calzadilla collaborated with science fiction author Ted Chiang, who wrote a script in the spirit of a fable that ponders the irreducible gaps between living, nonliving, human, animal, technological, and cosmic actors.
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David Sedaris Talks About Surviving the Suicide of a Sibling
The essayist discusses the complex tragedy of having a loved one take their own life.
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The Glass Eye
On Seeing and Artifical Eyes, by Jeannie Vanasco
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Losing Amy
The heartbreaking loss of my sister to mental illness.
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Teachings
A summer stint in a hospital, where poetry is necessary medicine. By Win Bassett.
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How We Are Sick: Diagnosis
Maybe I’m dying. It’s a thought I’ve had a lot throughout my life. As a child I was paranoid and constantly frightened by everyone’s seemingly fragile health. That comes from being the daughter of someone who is chronically ill. My mother was in and out of the hospital, which meant a lot of my time was spent in and out of the hospital waiting rooms. As I got older... By Al Rosenberg. (March)
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Houses of Horror
Matthew Sweet explores the creative rivalry between the two great British horror studios.
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What It’s Like to Be Declared Dead by the Government
Every year, due to typos, 12,000 Americans are erroneously declared dead by the Social Security Administration. Those affected endure the Orwellian nightmare of convincing the government that they are alive.
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Notes from Hiroshima
Keloid Girls and Panic Grass in the uncatalogued archive of John Hersey
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Jenny Diski’s End Notes
The English writer is facing death the only way she knows how: line by line.
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