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Finding Meaning in the Mystery

Honoring Earth Day with a new kind of return to nature

Goldsworthy’s work using natural, found resources can serve as inspiration for incorporating art into loss

The therapeutic company of life-sized cardboard cutouts of dead loved ones

Study calls into question the long-standing use of formaldehyde in the funeral industry

This curious and profound experience stumps scientists to this day

Seeing her — and, later, her bones in the retort — was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life