A Victorian death expert explains what Amy Winehouse took from John Keats
Deborah Lutz has written about Gothic villains, Victorian sex rebels and the Cannibal Club; her latest book is on Victorian death culture. She is an ...
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An Iraq War Widow Speaks Out, and Starts a Project
Taryn Davis married the love of her life and was about to finish college, then she got the worst news of her life. Her husband ...
Inside death row with Werner Herzog’s new film, an exclusive interview
Imagine, you’re rotting in jail with an execution date looming, what are you thinking? Werner Herzog’s new documentary film, Into the Abyss, which premiered Friday ...
Interview with a man who cleans up blood and brains for a living
Where do the blood and guts go after a horrific suicide or grisly accidental death? Often it is scrubbed away by Aftermath, a crime scene ...
Will Osama bin Laden get 72 Virgins? A talk with an Islam death expert
Osama bin Laden’s body was placed on a flat board and slid into the sea, was that the proper thing to do? Will he attain ...
Interview with playwright Eric Coble, whose boobytrapped Brooklyn mother teaches a lesson on dying with grace
Eric Coble has written and produced plays on Edgar Allen Poe, Pinocchio and Pecos Bill; his latest, Velocity of Autumn, is about an elderly Brooklyn ...
Talking death with pharmacopeian Hamilton Morris, who traveled to Haiti in search of zombie powder
Hamilton Morris, a pioneering young pharmacologist, has hacked through the Amazon looking for ayahuasca and hunkered down in a missile silo with an LSD kingpin; ...
Interview with America’s only high school death ed teacher
New Paltz High School teacher George Campbell taught chemistry, biology and for 20 years, a course on death and dying called “Death Education.”
Talking death to tots
One day, a car raced through a yellow light and slammed into Nikki Sian-Leigh Aksamit’s vehicle. She was a mother of two and six weeks ...
Dead more than 10,000 times, and still living
Joan Harvey has written over 10,000 obituaries for The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper.
