Life & Death

Entering the Doorway of Death with Dina Taylor

One thing hospice nurse, Dina Taylor, has come to understand after 27 years of hospice work: Too often Americans are…

6 years ago

The Death of Learning – A Visit To One Of The US’s Last Surviving Anatomy And Pathology Museums

In a busy Boston neighborhood of honking delivery trucks, hard-hatted construction men and urban hospitals is the Harvard Medical School’s…

6 years ago

Are Robot Morticians Just Around The Corner?

“So-called robot nannies are already a hit in Japan and China and are now beginning to appear stateside,” the article…

6 years ago

A Precious Story of Stillborn Babies

...follows the case of a mother in Lafourche Parish who did not know she was pregnant and gave birth to…

6 years ago

Searching for Ghosts in the Bayous Outside New Orleans with John Desantis

John DeSantis is the type of old-school, wild-haired, chain-smoking keeps-a-police-scanner-in-his-car-which-also-serves-as-an-office journalist that Hollywood directors used to make movies about.

7 years ago

Yes, there really is a market for human bones.

A week or so ago we ran across an article in an industry blog highlighting an interview with a top…

7 years ago

The Mysterious Case of Fumiko Kimura, the Mother Who Drowned Her Children

On January, 29, 1985, 32-year-old Fumiko Kimura waded out into the cold waves off Santa Monica Beach on a deadly…

7 years ago

My Rock n Roll Dad: A Unique Story of Remembrance

The year is 1969. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. have recently been assassinated. Riots have swept many…

7 years ago

Death on the Campaign Trail – From Trump and Clinton to RFK and Horace Greeley

“No presidential candidate of a major party has ever died or withdrawn before a presidential election,” wrote historian John Buescher,…

8 years ago

The Lonely Death and Fantastic Reincarnation of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla died “quietly and alone in room #3327 on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker in New…

8 years ago