MIT Technology Review
Technology that lets us speak to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?
16+ min · · Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve. · Shared by 473, including Rick Powell, Howard Getson, Allison Arieff, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, A. FNIX Hill, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe #VivaTech, Ross Dawson, John Nosta, Touche Theories, Draven, John Hagel
The New Yorker
The Art of Dying
5 min · · I always said that when my time came I’d want to go fast. But where’s the fun in that? · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
commonsense.news
Scheduled to Die: The Rise of Canada's Assisted Suicide Program
11+ min · · What do you do when you discover your son has made an appointment for his death? · Shared by 44, including Rick Powell, Jennifer A. Frey, John Nosta, Ben Dreyfuss, Ed West
LensCulture
Time As We Know It - Photographs and text by Marna Clarke
1 min · · This intimate portrait series is a tribute to love, and to the demanding and courageous task of growing old gracefully, graciously, and aware · Shared by 512, including Rick Powell
The New Atlantis
Dying, But Not Alone
7 min · · We can’t escape the social dimension of choosing how we die. · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
uscremationequipment.com
Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium
· Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Bookforum Magazine
Going Postal
10 min · · A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read · Shared by 221, including Mac McCann, Will Leitch, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Rick Powell, Fred Destin, Matthias Lampe, Daniel Schwarz, Mathew Ingram, Liv 😷, Mike Troiano, Katja Evertz, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, { Monah } 💡, Avinash Kaushik, Esther Schindler, Christopher Lauer™
bigeasymagazine.com
The Ethics Of AI And Death
4 min · · AI can now accurately predict death, but is that a prediction we want to hear? In almost every industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is on the fast track to outpacing human endeavor. Machine learning… · Shared by 46, including Brian Ahier, Rick Powell, Liv 😷, Andreas Staub, Vinod Sharma
Aeon+Psyche
To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’
5 min · · Whether grieving a death or connecting to colleagues, creativity enables an artful life, according to Chinese philosophy · Shared by 982, including Dr Rani Lill Anjum 🐦, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, Neil Hart 💙, David Pennington, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Dr Skye Cleary, Jessel Sookha, Sergio Caredda, Anita Leirfall, Rick Powell, John Hagel, Alf Rehn, Katja Evertz, Stephanie A Kowalski, Miguel Angel Escotet, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
mexiconewsdaily.com
Home-hospice built around expat in Chiapas is seed planted for the future
· In San Cristóbal, a 71-year-old American is living his last few months in peace and comfort with friends, caregivers—and stage 4 cancer. · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Harper's Magazine
[Memoir] The Cancer Chair, by Christian Wiman
1 min · · Is suffering meaningless? · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
A Politics of the Future
15+ min · · Despite the myth that deaths of the elderly are never untimely, the author mourns a friend, fifty years his senior, who succumbed to COVID-19 She taught him that a moral life entails wanting those… · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
Love One Another or Die
17+ min · · During the AIDS crisis, different contingents of the LGBTQ movement set aside their differences to prioritize mutual care. What can we learn from this strategy today? And why is it still so difficult… · Shared by 8, including Rick Powell
HuffPost Green
Learning To Live With A Chronic Urge To Die
· I started thinking about killing myself when I was 3 or 4 years old. I've tried nine times. This is why I'm still here. · Shared by 30, including Rick Powell, Fern
3quarksdaily.com
Obit
3 min · · by Rafiq Kathwari Mother passed away in her sleep at Hebrew Home, The Bronx. The last time I visited her was on 7th March. Hebrew Home locked down on the 10th. Mother died alone on 31 March. She was… · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Aeon+Psyche
Why doctors should involve a patient’s family in decisions
12+ min · · How a concern to protect the autonomy of patients leads to the exclusion of families just when they are needed the most · Shared by 22, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Timothy Lomauro, Rick Powell