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  • Strolling the Champs-Élysées with 120,000 Syrian Refugees

    On August 21, Mohamed watched rockets fly over his village outside Damascus. Rumors spread that the rockets had been loaded with sarin nerve gas. When he returned home, two of his children were dead. Mohamed left Syria, and five days later, I met him...

  • You Should Let This Nice Swedish Lady Freeze-Dry Your Corpse

    A Swedish inventor has created a method to freeze-dry corpses to make them more environmentally safe when they decompose, but the Swedish death industry is trying to stop it from ever catching on.

  • Screw Everyone

    Dav is having one of those days. By “one of those days,” we mean he's dealing with fire, helicopters, and stupid itty bitty humans who refuse to shut up.

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  • A Tale of Two Birds and Tantric Meditation

    I’ve just returned from my biannual meditation retreat focused on Phowa, a Tibetan Buddhist practice that prepares you to consciously transfer your mind stream from the body at the moment of death.

  • People Are Now Crowdfunding Their Funerals Online

    It would cost about $10,000 to bury your dead ass right now. I’m talking to you, 18- to 35-year-olds. Someone reading this will likely drop dead pretty soon, statistically speaking. If you die penniless, your family could and should consider going the...

  • Facebook Funeral

    Your funeral has a Facebook event. We're going to geo-tag the location and read your draft tweets aloud. Your urn is a hot spot, because of a Kickstarter you forgot about, and we built a bot from your web presence. It's almost the same as having you...