The wide range of ways in which Americans have experienced the presence of those who have departed....
Death
The cost of death services has long exasperated Americans. By Michael WatersEditorial InternWashington Monthly When Lamar Hankins’...
Holbein’s woodcuts were a highly original take on a medieval theme. This article, Hans Holbein’s Dance of...
Every element of ritual was directed to stress the importance of the individual and his worldly remembrance....
The founding stories of end-of-life start-ups tend to follow a similar arc. By Kim VelseyReporterCurbed “We’ve had...
It’s time to reevaluate the cost of death care—and its environmental impact. “YOU CAN’T DIE these days because...
With prices increasing because of the method becoming more popular, there’s a shift in the industry. Debt...
Trying to reduce the danger that one will, in a moment of grief-impaired judgment, fall victim to...
Planning a funeral is an emotional time, and when you’re dealing with the death of a loved...
‘We want to make it possible to live healthily for a longer period of time.’ In the...
Amazon founder is funding a biotechnology startup that is looking to reverse ageing. Introduction Jeff Bezos is...
The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death with dancing along to the...
Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could...
Ancient Persia had the same interest in what happens after death as any culture in the present...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
Many cultures around the world celebrate death as part of life, though we often contain death within...
Pexels Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion. By Dr. Yvonne Inall / 12.30.2016 Research Assistant...
By Ashley Makar / 02.14.2018 I was excited to die. It wasn’t suicidal ideation or acceptance or...
By Dr. Bryan C. Keene / 06.08.2015 Adjunct Professor of Art History Pepperdine University The recent Death Salon at the...
A toy truck left at a tombstone in a Montreal cemetery. Marc Bruxelle/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Jenna Drenten /...
Students from the author’s class on death and dying explore Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. /...
A doctor reveals why palliative care patients talk far more of life than death. By Dr. Matthew...
At the Modern Filial Piety Culture Museum in Qionglai, southwest China, February 2015. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty By Dr....
‘Green burials’ that use biodegradable coffins or lessen the environmental impact in other ways are on the...
An illustrated depiction of a scene of Lincoln lying in state. Internet Archive Book Images By Dr. Brian...
Scene from FW Murnau’s Nosferatu 1922. / Photo by Rex Features By Dr. Thomas W. Laqueur / 01.11.2017 Professor...