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Diving into the world of the dead
Twice a month Yasuo Takamatsu puts on scuba gear and goes diving in search of his wife Yuko, who was swept away by the 2011 tsunami. His old school friend, Masaaki Narita, who lost his daughter, Emi, joins him.
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The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead
Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death.
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The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead
Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death. By Rachel Wilkinson.
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The boys who could see England
Last winter, two bodies in identical wetsuits were found in Norway and the Netherlands. Police in three countries failed to identify them — and then the trail led to Calais. By Anders Fjellberg.
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“These People Need to Know What We Have Gone Through”
The victims of crime who go to prisons to confront criminals, and why they do it. By Mark Obbie.
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Military School Knew of Doctor's Macabre Ways for Decades
The president of the U.S. military’s medical college said he took swift action after learning in 2013 that John Henry Hagmann, a former Army doctor teaching there, was injecting students with hypnotic drugs, inducing shock by withdrawing their blood, and performing rectal exams in class.
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52 Blue
At a remote military base in the Pacific Northwest, Navy sonar technicians hear a confounding sound. It is the voice of a whale, but one that sings at a frequency—52 hertz—never before heard by scientists, and inaudible to other members of its species. The whale seems to be alone in the Pacific Ocean, unable to communicate with its kind... By Leslie Jameson. (August, 2014)
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Khandias: The Keepers of Doongerwadi
Among Parsis, Khandias are a group of people spoken about only in hushed tones. It is their job to bathe and carry the deceased of the community to the Towers of Silence for vultures, and then tend to the mortal remains, pushing them ritually into a deep pit at the centre of the circular ‘tower’ … By Lhendup G Bhutia.
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The Body Behind the Little White Church
A 25-year-old Ohio woman goes missing for eight days. When her body is finally found, a tiny Appalachian town is rocked by shocking secrets of infidelity, polygamy and cold-blooded murder. By Alison Stine.
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The Death of Patient Zero
Personalized medicine—or, as President Obama calls it, precision medicine—may indeed one day deliver routine medical miracles. But for Stephanie Lee, the only miracles were the human and ancient kind. By Tom Junod.
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Gruesome Archeaological Find: 97 Bodies Stuffed into Ancient House in China
A prehistoric disaster, possibly an epidemic, may be responsible for the remains of nearly 100 bodies found stuffed into a 5,000-year-old house in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies.
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Why Can’t I See You?
For at least a decade I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that I wanted to end my days in California. One of the people I said this to, in San Francisco, was quick to put me right: you don’t end your days in California, you begin them. I was happy to be corrected in this distinctly Californian way, but when we eventually got here it seemed that I might have been right after all... By Geoff Dyer. (April 2014)
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Frankenstein’s Mother
‘If pain is what makes others real to us, there was not another human being more real to me than my mother.’ By Darcey Steinke.
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The Curious Case of the Bog Bodies
One Saturday in the spring of 1950, brothers Viggo and Emil Højgaard from the small village of Tollund, in Denmark, were cutting peat in a local bog when they uncovered a dead man. He looked as though he had only just passed away. His eyelashes, chin stubble, and the wrinkles in his skin were visible; his leather cap was intact. Suspecting murder, the brothers called the police in nearby Silkeborg, but the body wasn’t what it seemed.
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Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. By John Hersey. (August 31, 1946)
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The Aquarium
“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that ‘words failed.’ But words were not failing Teri and me at all.” A child’s isolating illness. By Aleksander Hemon. (June 13, 2011)
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Confronting Mortality In An Unsettling, Inspiring 'Tour Of Bones'
Before her death in 2014, author Denise Inge took a spiritual journey to bone houses throughout Europe. Lots of us are afraid to confront the things lurking in our basements. In mine, it's the spider crickets; in Denise Inge's, it was the bones, piles of human bones that reached almost to the ceiling of the stone cellar beneath her house.
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Obsessed With Death
Is a fascination with the macabre perverse, normal, or somewhere in-between? When Scott Michaels purchased the domain FindADeath.com in 1997, he had no sense of the phenomenon he was starting. He was just a regular guy who happened to be really interested in dead people, and he devoted his site to documenting the last days, autopsy reports, death certificates, and grave sites of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
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A Grief So Deep It Won’t Die
The sheer duration of pain for some over the loss of a loved one has given rise to recognition of and treatment for so-called complicated grief. By Paula Span.
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As My Face Disappeared So Did My Mother and Father
When a horrifying bacterial infection disfigured my newborn face, my parents abandoned me right there in my hospital bed. The only thing more painful than knowing they left me behind was finding them 38 years later. By Howard Shulman.
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