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Displaying all articles tagged:
Death
science of us
Apr. 25, 2017
When Someone Dies, It Brings Their Extended Online Network Closer for Years
There’s a lasting effect on Facebook interactions, according to new research on how social networks repair themselves, or don’t, after a death.
By
Jesse Singal
Mar. 22, 2017
Chimpanzees Care for Dead Bodies the Same Way Humans Do
For the first time, scientists have observed another species handling the dead “in a socially meaningful way.”
By
Cari Romm
advice
Feb. 9, 2017
How to Help a Friend Who’s Going Through Something Horrible
If you think you don’t need this book, you probably do.
By
Alex Ronan
Dec. 7, 2016
One Way to Deal With a Fear of Death: Go Shopping
Retail therapy for nagging thoughts of your own mortality.
By
Cari Romm
motherhood
Dec. 4, 2016
Bruce Lee Helped Me Come to Terms With the Death of My Son
How I learned to grieve.
By
Linda Dahlstrom Anderson
Dec. 2, 2016
The Most Creative People Are Also the Least Afraid of Death
There’s a certain type of person who tends to be more chill about this whole mortality thing.
By
Cari Romm
Aug. 25, 2016
Twitter Is Changing the Way People Mourn Online
New research on death and social media.
By
Cari Romm
Aug. 3, 2016
The 4 Things That Are Worse Than Death, According to 180 Severely Ill People
A rather dark version of the game Would You Rather.
By
Melissa Dahl
advice
May 11, 2016
Ask Polly: My Sister Has Cancer, and I Can’t Go On
Even though you’d rather crawl into a hole than face this reality, you can’t.
By
Heather Havrilesky
mothers and daughters
May 6, 2016
Nursing My Mother, the ICU Nurse
I have waited all my life for this access to my mother, and I will take her, as she is — distant, forlorn, changed.
By
Tiffany Briere
mothers and daughters
May 4, 2016
What I Learned From Losing My Mother When I Was 17
“I know mothers can cause people problems. But it’s hard to listen to people’s bellyaches about how terrible their mother is.”
As told to
Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
Apr. 19, 2016
Saturday Is the Deadliest Day of the Week
It’s first in car crashes, drug overdoses, and fatal encounters with poisonous plants.
By
Cari Romm
Apr. 6, 2016
How
When Breath Becomes Air
Is Helping Create Conversations About Mortality
If we’re not ready to talk about these things, at least we’re reading about them.
By
Melissa Dahl
can we live
Mar. 3, 2016
Even Brief Moments of Happiness Can Make Death Feel Imminent
Sometimes women’s hearts just can’t handle happy.
By
Susan Rinkunas
relationships
Nov. 19, 2015
The Science of Longtime Couples Who Die Close Together
The science of longtime couples who die close together.
By
Melissa Dahl
guts
Nov. 11, 2015
Death: A New Excuse to Hate Your Belly Fat!
Muffin tops aren’t such a joke after all.
By
Susan Rinkunas
rest in peace brutus
Sept. 29, 2015
Bad Things Happen to the Rock, Too, Sometimes
Puppies die sometimes.
By
Dayna Evans
our selfies ourselves
Sept. 22, 2015
Selfies Kill More People Than Sharks
Get out of the water, er, Instagram.
By
Allison P. Davis
first person
July 30, 2015
How to Plan a Wedding When You’re an Orphan
“When I think about my parents’ absence at my wedding I feel a kind of relief. It’s a guilty kind of relief, but there it is.”
By
Leah Carroll
in memoriam
June 3, 2015
Sheryl Sandberg Shares What She’s Learned After Her Husband’s Death
“I gained a more profound understanding of what it is to be a mother,” she wrote in a Facebook post today.
By
Erica Schwiegershausen
lessons
Apr. 14, 2015
When Her Time Comes, Blake Will Bravely Accept Death’s Cold Embrace
She will go gently.
By
Allison P. Davis
tattoos
Nov. 5, 2014
What a Tattoo Looks Like Up Really, Really Close
Very cool and slightly creepy.
By
Melissa Dahl
Oct. 17, 2014
Modern Medicine Changed the Way We Die, and Not Always for the Better
An excerpt from Atul Gawande’s new book,
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
By
Atul Gawande
Oct. 15, 2014
Atul Gawande on Making Life Meaningful, All the Way to the End
What we get wrong about our final years.
By
Melissa Dahl
consciousness
Oct. 10, 2014
What Near-Death Experiences Can Teach Us About Consciousness
New research might alter our understanding of death.
By
Alice Robb
death
Oct. 7, 2014
YouTube’s Most Famous Mortician on Death, Funeral Selfies, and Home Funerals
And, of course, necrophilia.
By
Katie Zavadski
truth
Aug. 12, 2014
Avoiding the Breast Cancer ‘Warrior’ Trap
Let’s get real: Cancer doesn’t make you stronger.
By
Peter B. Bach
May 16, 2014
Clyde Snow, an Amazing Forensic Anthropologist, Just Died
He was a globetrotting skeleton-uncoverer and war-crime testifier.
By
Jesse Singal
May 16, 2014
It’s Better to Die at Home, But Many People Are Scared to Talk About It
In a new Canadian study, some people who could have died in the comfort of their home didn’t, simply because they and their families didn’t want to talk about end-of-life care.
By
Jesse Singal
quotables
Apr. 26, 2013
Emma Stone Beauty Q&A Gets Surprisingly Morbid
“We’ll all eventually be bones again one day.”
By
Kat Stoeffel
lies we’ve told
Aug. 30, 2012
I Said My Dad Had a Heart Attack — Then I Went Shopping
Confess a lie.
By
Marisa Meltzer
run through
June 2, 2008
Yves Saint Laurent’s Cause of Death Revealed, Funeral Arranged
Yves Saint Laurent died of brain cancer last night. His funeral has been scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Paris.
first responders
June 1, 2008
Breaking: Yves Saint Laurent Dead at 71
The designer passed away Sunday in Paris after suffering from a long illness.