The New Atlantis
Dying, But Not Alone
7 min read · Sep 6th · We can’t escape the social dimension of choosing how we die.
Bookforum Magazine
Going Postal
10 min read · 2020-09-03 · A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read
bigeasymagazine.com
The Ethics Of AI And Death
4 min read · 2020-08-10 · 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…
Aeon+Psyche
To be creative, Chinese philosophy teaches us to abandon ‘originality’
5 min read · 2020-09-01 · Whether grieving a death or connecting to colleagues, creativity enables an artful life, according to Chinese philosophy
mexiconewsdaily.com
Home-hospice built around expat in Chiapas is seed planted for the future
2020-08-16 · 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.
Harper's Magazine
[Memoir] The Cancer Chair, by Christian Wiman
1 min read · 2020-01-16 · Is suffering meaningless?
Boston Review
A Politics of the Future
~15 min read · 2020-06-12 · 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…
Boston Review
Love One Another or Die
~17 min read · 2020-04-02 · 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…
HuffPost Green
Learning To Live With A Chronic Urge To Die
From 2018 · 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.
3quarksdaily.com
Obit
3 min read · 2020-05-12 · 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…
Aeon+Psyche
Why doctors should involve a patient’s family in decisions
~12 min read · 2020-03-19 · How a concern to protect the autonomy of patients leads to the exclusion of families just when they are needed the most
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min read · 2020-01-21 · In other words, they're meant for most of the world.
Aeon+Psyche
If you could choose, what would make for a good death?
10 min read · 2020-01-14 · We can chose how we live – why not how we leave? A free society should allow dying to be more deliberate and imaginative
youtube.com
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death
2020-01-17 · Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything. Read mo...
Longreads
In Death, A Champion for Life Well Lived
1 min read · 2019-12-06 · “She no longer feared death because she could hold it in her hands at any time.”
