Tag: death

 In “Dying: a memoir,” she delivers a moving reflection on the end of life.

Even with modern medicine to supply a few repair parts for some breakdowns, too much of the internal plumbing isn't amenable to that. 

All the atheists I know of don't believe in afterlives either, but I'm not aware of surveys on this insofar as nonbelievers are concerned generally.

Yes, Mormons definitely believe that after death is the only acceptable time to be cremated. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)

Add language and written messages to the mix and you get an even more interesting process. We humans can achieve an "immortality" quite independent of death, cellular or multicellular.

There is no such thing as a “good death.” There is only a “good enough death.”

Our attempts to understand death, the why of it, not the how, are fueled by grief and fear and loss.