goodgriefcoach.net
No Grace - Hard to Feel Grateful in Grief
6 min · · Now, I want to talk about a comment that came up in conversation I had with somebody a while back when we were discussing what’s going on in my life since I suffered a heart-wrenching loss and had to… · Shared by 5, including Liv 😷
Benedict Evans
The death of the newsfeed
8 min · · What do we do now that there’s more in the newsfeed than we can possibly read? Can the algorithmic sample ever actually work, or do we swing back to 1:1 messaging? How do Stories rebundle that? And… · Shared by 155, including tjalve, Chris {he, they} , Gerd Leonhard, Ha Duong, Andi, Mark Kaigwa, Steven Sinofsky, Johannes Lenz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nir Eyal, Chris Messina, Sachin Rekhi, Matti Heubner, Fabricio Teixeira, Andreas Spiegler, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo), Carl Morris, Liv 😷, luis antónio santos
The New Yorker
Improving Ourselves to Death
17+ min · · What the self-help gurus and their critics reveal about our times. · Shared by 1394, including Moritz A. Mihatsch, Kim Schläpfer, Kevin Ho, Gerald Soparkar, Manos Hatzimalonas, Nichole, Andy Park, Liv 😷, Florian Hanke 🍎, Jacob Jarnvall, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Jane, luis antónio santos, Dominik Grolimund, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dayyan Smith, 瑞拿頭, Alain
The New York Times
The Lonely Death of George Bell
20+ min · · Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen. Yet death even in such forlorn form can cause a surprising amount of activity. Sometimes, along the way, a life’s secrets are… · Shared by 46, including Gui Schmitt, Shubhankar Adhikari, Sara Usinger, julian 🚮✨, Liv 😷
California Sunday
Death, Redesigned - The California Sunday Magazine
20+ min · · Can the legendary design firm @ideo redesign death? · Shared by 50, including Liv 😷, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋
Psychology Today
How Is Consciousness Related to the Brain?
6 min · · Near-death experiences, psychedelics, and meditation provide intriguing clues. · Shared by 333, including Philipp Laurim, Ron McIntyre, Stephanie A Kowalski, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Jansnet
The New York Times
The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names
6 min · · A presentation of obituaries and death notices from newspapers around the country tries to frame incalculable loss. · Shared by 154, including Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Scott McLeod, Forbes India, hakan, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, John Schwartz, Brian Stelter, Matt Zoller Seitz, Sascha Venohr, Liv 😷, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Kara Swisher, Ratna Desai, Xeorge Xonway, Chris Messina, Matt Willey, Eric Topol, ಠ_ಠ
Longreads
On Vanishing
19+ min · · Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone. · Shared by 116, including Liv 😷
The New York Times
She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?
7 min · · Laurie Garrett, the prophet of this pandemic, expects years of death and “collective rage.” · Shared by 177, including Brian Stelter, Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D, David Wallace-Wells, Gideonro, John Tasioulas, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gregory Zuckerman, Tiffany Shlain, @augieray@mastodon.social, Kate Manne, Hiroko Tabuchi, Matthew Herper, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Christopher Mims 🤌, Eric Topol, Austin Kleon, Hrag, Kara Swisher, Mathieu von Rohr
Eurozine
The quietness of death
5 min · · Philosopher Krzysztof Michalski’s meditation on an unexpected death. · Shared by 103, including Jason Stanley, Ishaaq Mohammed, Thomas Power, Liv 😷
The New Yorker
Obituary for the Analyst: Richard C. Friedman and the Quelling of My Depression
5 min · · In the course of twenty-five years, Dr. F helped me find something to hold onto: not only an imaginable future but also a known past. · Shared by 20, including Liv 😷, Kyle Chayka, Vaughan Bell
The Economist
Cheating death
4 min · · Science is getting to grips with ways to slow ageing. Rejoice, as long as the side-effects can be managed · Shared by 6, including Liv 😷
The Guardian
Enough of the euphemisms. Let’s talk about death openly and honestly
4 min · · We no longer feel comfortable naming death, and we’ve forgotten how to support the dying and bereaved, says palliative care physician Kathryn Mannix · Shared by 10, including Liv 😷
The New York Times
An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’
4 min · · Azra Raza’s “The First Cell” poses hard questions about cancer treatment and end-of-life care. · Shared by 9, including Liv 😷
The Guardian
Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth
2 min · · Brain seems to categorise death as something that only befalls other people · Shared by 156, including Gabriele, Jonathan Kogan, Liv 😷