Dying
Funeral Directors Share Morbid Stories About Death During the Holidays
"At midnight on Christmas Eve I was driving from LA to San Diego and back with 11 corpses. I was Santa Claus and they were my reindeer."
Here's Everything We Learned About Death in 2014
Bodies turned up in weird places, people had complicated feelings about suicide, and the circumstances of our eventual deaths became disturbingly clear.
We Really Need to Talk About Grief
Wouldn't it be useful to have a manual on how to deal with those in mourning? After her mother died, Annie Broadbent went and wrote one.
'Dead Meet' Is a Dating Site for People Who Work in the Death Industries
Because gravediggers and autopsy specialists need kisses, too.
Dr. Atul Gawande Wants Us to Die Better
That means acknowledging that the medical establishment does a pretty lousy job at preparing people to die.
Postmortem: The Life and Deaths of a Medicolegal Death Investigator
I participated in 7,000 forensic autopsies during my 30-year career.
The Hot Zone: Black Death Returns to Madagascar
The black plague returns to Madagascar’s rural highlands.
Having a Tibetan Sky Burial Means Birds Will Slowly Eat Your Corpse
Tibetan Buddhists have been performing sky burials for centuries, and it's one of the most economical – but also totally gory – funeral practices in the world.
Looking at the Ancient Catholic Practice of Turning Human Bones into Art and Furniture
Everyone dies, but not everyone gets to be turned into a light fixture.