How the deceased lived with the living. By Dr. Mario ErasmoCultural HistorianProfessor and Head Undergraduate CoordinatorUniversity of...
Death
Explore how people have understood death and responded to loss throughout history. Discover how customs surrounding the end of life have expressed religious beliefs and shaped the ways communities remember the dead.
Medieval society is popularly believed to have been obsessed with death. By Dr. Sophie OosterwijkArt Historian, Freelance...
Two states have opened their doors to terminally ill nonresidents seeking aid in dying. By Debby WaldmanWriter...
For more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a...
Debate shows the need to rethink the biological model of mental illness. By Elyse WeingartenFreelance Writer In...
How different forms of socio-material communication can be addressed through the material record of burials. Abstract In...
He addresses religious issues and cultural differences frequently throughout his Histories. Introduction Herodotus’ section of his Histories on burial in ancient Egypt (Book...
A 19th-century campaigner started a gradual trend for outsourcing the preparation and storage of a body. Introduction...
The wide range of ways in which Americans have experienced the presence of those who have departed....
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...