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Modern Loss Handbook
Modern Loss is all about eradicating the stigma and awkwardness around grief while also focusing on our capacity for resilience and finding meaning. In this interactive guide, In the Modern Loss...
View ArticleHuman Composting Now Legal in California
This weekend, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that makes human composting legal in the state beginning in 2027. The bill, AB-351, makes California the fifth state to allow human composting...
View ArticleMy Grandfather’s Death Party Was a Final Gift to His Family: Sara Harrison
From the NY Times;Death is, famously, one of the few certainties in this life. It’s also a reality that doctors, patients and families tend to avoid. The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death notes...
View ArticleAn Assisted Death Machine is Being Tested in Switzerland
From the Washington Post:People wishing to end their lives in Switzerland — one of a handful of countries that give the option — could soon have access to a new method: a 3-D-printed pod that its...
View Article"Nature Has Its Way of Ending Life. I’m Changing the Manner and the Time" --...
From Rachel Handler in New York Magazine's The Cut: A few weeks ago, my partner Adam’s grandpa David called to let us know he was proceeding with his plan to have a peaceful, dignified death. David had...
View ArticleThe Art of Dying: Peter Schjeldahl 1942-2022
Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl has died, and in remembering him, many people referred to his 2019 essay, "The Art of Dying," written after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Of course, as it could...
View ArticleBaking Recipes from Gravestones
The Washington Post writes about Rosie Grant, who bakes from recipies so important to the women who loved them so much they had them engraved on their gravestones. "They're to die for," she says....
View ArticleLydia Polgreen: What My Father’s Death Taught Me About Living
"The shortcomings that seemed so glaring when I was young suddenly faded because I could see how the story worked out. The things he failed to provide were nothing compared with what he had given me:...
View ArticleFrom Rob Delaney's Book About His Son's Death
From the New York Times: For Delaney, the pain of a loss that comes from such love is not something be avoided. No one gets a free pass when it comes to grief. “That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to...
View ArticleEco-Burial Options
From the Washington Post: A distinct shift is underway in how we approach death. More than half of Americans are seeking greener funerals, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, and...
View ArticleA Millennial After Her Parents Have Died
Becky Robison writes in Salon about dealing with her parents estates, including their things, and so much confusing paperwork. "Mourning is just the beginning," she says. My life has been consumed by...
View ArticleA Parent Describes Grief
With the death of our eldest child, I had no framework on how to proceed through my own mental health journey. People don’t talk about such things. As a television producer, I found myself thinking...
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A Hospice Nurse on Embracing the Grace of Dying
From an interview with hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos in the New York Times:What should more people know about death? I think they should know what they want. I’ve been in more situations than you could...
View ArticleA Loving Brother Writes About MAID -- Medical Aid in Dying
Steven Petrow writes in the New York Times, I Promised My Sister I Would Write About Her Death. An excerpt:I joined a conversation my sister and her wife were having with a social worker, a new member...
View ArticlePoems on Grief
“I Suffer a Phobia Called Hope” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat“Black Snow [I came home]” by Carl Adamshick“A Great Beauty” by Cyrus Cassells“Aspen Tree” by Paul Celan“Greensickness” by Laurel Chen“I measure...
View ArticleKhin Myint on His Sister's Decision to Die
In Slate, Khin Myint says he accepted his sister's decision to die as her right. But "It took me years more to realize something deeper about how we view human euthanasia." He writes about the...
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