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Time As We Know It - Photographs and text by Marna Clarke
1 min read · Jul 12th · 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 101, including Rick Powell
The New Atlantis
Dying, But Not Alone
7 min read · 2021-09-06 · 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
2020-11-29 · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
Bookforum Magazine
Going Postal
10 min read · From 2020 · A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read · Shared by 160, 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, { Monah } 💡, Avinash Kaushik, Esther Schindler, Christopher Lauer
bigeasymagazine.com
The Ethics Of AI And Death
4 min read · From 2020 · 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 read · From 2020 · Whether grieving a death or connecting to colleagues, creativity enables an artful life, according to Chinese philosophy · Shared by 432, including Gregor B. Rosenauer, Neil Hart 💙, Dr Rani Lill Anjum ☮️🌍🍀, Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell, Dr Skye Cleary, Liv 😷, Sergio Caredda, Anita Leirfall, Jessel Sookha, 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
From 2020 · 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 read · From 2020 · Is suffering meaningless? · Shared by 7, including Rick Powell
Boston Review
A Politics of the Future
~15 min read · From 2020 · 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 read · From 2020 · 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
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. · Shared by 28, including Rick Powell, Fern
3quarksdaily.com
Obit
3 min read · From 2020 · 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 read · From 2020 · 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
Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min read · From 2020 · In other words, they're meant for most of the world. · Shared by 38, including Rick Powell, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Aeon+Psyche
If you could choose, what would make for a good death?
10 min read · From 2020 · We can chose how we live – why not how we leave? A free society should allow dying to be more deliberate and imaginative · Shared by 113, including Rick Powell, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #Abolishthemonarchy, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Desmond Williams, Liv 😷, Anita Leirfall
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A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death
From 2020 · 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... · Shared by 12, including Dr. Alec Couros, Rick Powell, Constantine Sandis
