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November 2014

November 17, 2014

Dishonoring Cremation

An essay by the philosopher Rachel Lu taking up the subject of Friday's The Grave...

November 14, 2014

The Grave Not Taken

Something I wrote a few years ago, of which I was reminded by the essay...

November 13, 2014

Dying Feels Like Abandonment

A moving, lovely essay about aging, loss, and death by Bonnie Friedman, The Watcher, subtitled...

November 04, 2014

A Death Museum

In Brooklyn, the new Morbid Anatomy Museum is certainly morbid but also revealing. Its culturally Jewish but...

November 03, 2014

Praying for the Dead

An example: In the twenty-six years he's been a priest, our pastor Father Rich Jones...