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Mortality

  1. millennials
    Millennials Are in Their ThirtiesUnbelievable.
    By Katie Heaney
  2. ask polly
    Ask Polly: ‘My Mother Has Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer and I’m Falling Apart’Ultimately, only you can decide how you want to navigate this sickness with her.
    By Heather Havrilesky
  3. self reflection
    I Stared Down Mortality, and It Made Me Worry About My HairIf this doesn’t stop, there’s not going to be anything left.
    By Anna Ostrom
  4. the youth
    This Teen Who Arrived to Prom in a Coffin Will Make You Feel Extremely OldThat’s one way to make an entrance.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  5. advice
    Ask Polly: Is Life All Downhill From Here?Don’t assume that the future is even worse that the present.
    By Heather Havrilesky
  6. mortality
    The ‘Maternal Bereavement Effect’ Explains Why Parents Die After Their ChildrenA mother’s “hazard of mortality” shoots up by 326 percent in the two years following a child’s death.
    By Drake Baer
  7. mortality
    People Are Dying Younger Because America Keeps Failing the Bad-Break TestIn the richest country in the world, it shouldn’t be the case that one bad break can trigger a downward spiral to death.
    By Jesse Singal
  8. mortality
    Black People Are Now Living Almost As Long As White People, But There’s a CatchThere’s been a heartening reduction in the racial lifespan gap, but it’s hiding some bad news for public health.
    By Jesse Singal
  9. The Gender Controversy Over White Mortality“It’s sometimes the case that when bloggers are responding in real time, they’re looking at one small slice of it without looking into the one bigger picture in which it fits.”
    By Jesse Singal
  10. concussions
    We All Make Decisions Like the One Wes Welker Just MadeWe’re constantly trying to reconcile what we want today with what might kill us decades from now.
    By Jesse Singal
  11. public health
    How Researchers Will Figure Out Why So Many Middle-aged White People Are DyingIt’s going to be very, very complicated.
    By Jesse Singal
  12. self portrait
    How I Learned to Love Almost DyingAn outtake from The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits.
    By Heidi Julavits
  13. lessons
    When Her Time Comes, Blake Will Bravely Accept Death’s Cold EmbraceShe will go gently.
    By Allison P. Davis
  14. Atul Gawande on Making Life Meaningful, All the Way to the EndWhat we get wrong about our final years. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  15. stress
    Everyday Annoyances Will Kill Us All Death by a thousand tiny hassles.
    By Melissa Dahl