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Where Will You Die?
Hidden Spring Lane. “I plan on dying here.” The words came quite unbidden and surprised me. We were in the process of building a house on a few acres in…
You Have Thought Up the Wrong World
In the spring of 1994 my grandmother chose to go off dialysis. Four days later, she was dead. I still remember my parents waking me up in the middle of…
Harry Potter and Running from Death
Our hero, Harry, demonstrates an attitude towards death that very few of us actually hold.
Where Are All the Grownups?
Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?
The Advantages of Dying Young
The listlessness of modern death is that you might not even get a chance to show courage before you forget who you are.
Swine Flu’s Real Exposure
Claremont, CA. The most haunting, awful scenes in Thucydides’s history of the Pelopponesian war are those describing the Athenian plague. The plague emerged in the second year of the war,…