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Acid Rain
Lorn
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Preparing for a Beautiful End
Josiah Neufeld writes about a couple preparing for the end. (Jan ’15)
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The puzzle solver
A researcher changes course to help his son. By Tracie White.
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The Same Story
In this story, two young women are pregnant at the same time by the same man. Neither woman is to blame. By Suzanne Roberts. (Fall ’14)
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The Man in the Woods
The epic manhunt for a murderer in the forests of Fort Bragg, California. By Ashley Powers.
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How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves
The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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Walking Corpse Syndrome: When The Alive Think They’ve Died
Zombies have become a mainstream way to suspend our disbelief and engage with the land of make-believe. However, they may be walking among us in real life thanks to a rare mental illness called Cotard’s Syndrome. By Jaleesa Baulkman. (May 25, ’16)
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Running Out Of You
Keep Shelly In Athens (2011)
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10 Most Bizarre Courthouse Suicides
Unfortunately, it is not that uncommon for tragedies to unfold in a courtroom, often where tensions are high and the dangerous linger. We’ve seen it throughout history with numerous judges being shot, lawyers being murdered, and people taking the law into their own hands. However, when one inflicts the harm solely on themselves to end their own misery, it leaves those who bear witness not only haunted by the memory of what they’ve seen but forever questioning one’s despair and desperation. The following is a list of 10 people who refused to allow the legal system to play out, thus determining their own fate.
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The Deadly Pain Medicine Sold by Skeletons
At the end of the 1800s, one St. Louis company marketed their signature pain-relieving product with a series of macabre calendars. By Bess Lovejoy.
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Unnecessariat
Every four years some political ingénue decides that the solution to “poverty” is “retraining”: for the information economy, except that tech companies only hire Stanford grads, or for health care, except that an abundance of sick people doesn’t translate into good jobs for nurses’ aides, or nowadays for “the trades” as if the world suffered a shortage of plumbers… By Anne Amnesia. (May 10, 2016)
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A New Vision for Dreams of the Dying
A team of clinicians and researchers is trying to understand the importance of deathbed dreams to help the ill and the bereaved. By Jan Hoffman. (Feb. 2, 2016)
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A Tender Hand in the Presence of Death
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.
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The Old Man
A writer remembers his father. By David Means.
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A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning
I’ve never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What’s my purpose? or What does it all mean? By Kevin Simler.
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Sydney H. Schanberg Is Dead at 82; Former Times Correspondent Chronicled Terror of 1970s Cambodia
Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer for covering the fall of the Lon Nol regime to the Khmer Rouge and inspired the film “The Killing Fields,” a recounting of his colleague’s survival during the genocide of millions. By Robert D. McFfadden. (July 9, 2016)
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Appleton [Wisconsin] teen makes heartbreaking decision to die
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.
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The Devastating Process of Dying in America Without Insurance
What do people do when they can’t afford end-of-life care? By Mark Betancourt.
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Racism, Stress, and Black Death
Systemic prejudice always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. By Clint Smith.
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The History of Life-Sized, Fully Dissectible “Anatomical Venuses”
In the 18th century, medical students and the general public learned about the insides of the human body through a tool that to 21st-century eyes likely appears shocking or offensive. By Claire Voon.
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