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  • Legendary Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury Dies at 91Grief and celebrity tributes pour in from around the globe at the literary giant’s passing

    Legendary Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury Dies at 91
    Grief and celebrity tributes pour in from around the globe at the literary giant’s passing

    In 1941, Ray Bradbury earned $15 for his first paid short story — a noiry little piece called “Pendulum,” co-authored with Henry Hasse, and published in the pulp magazine Super […]

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  • A Journalist Becomes His Parents’ Death PanelTIME Magazine adds their voice to the conversation about end-of-life care

    A Journalist Becomes His Parents’ Death Panel
    TIME Magazine adds their voice to the conversation about end-of-life care

    In the current TIME Magazine cover story, writer Joe Klein divulges the story of his parents’ final days. In the video below, Klein talks about how their death taught him […]

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  • How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face the End-of-Life

    How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face the End-of-Life

    A study conducted by psychiatrist Charles Grob, a researcher at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, administered psilocybin — an active component of psychedelic mushrooms — to cancer patients near the end-of-life to […]

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In life, no matter how much money you have or who you are–we all get one day at a time.”
    -Susan Joan Sherman

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  • “Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard”Kay Ryan's "Things Shouldn't Be So Hard" celebrates the memories we leave behind

    “Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard”
    Kay Ryan’s “Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard” celebrates the memories we leave behind

    I’ve been writing this column since August, and yet I’ve never written about a local poet. That changes this week, as I’ve just discovered Kay Ryan, a current resident of […]

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  • Grace Before DyingPhotography of the end-of-life at Louisiana State Penitentiary

    Grace Before Dying
    Photography of the end-of-life at Louisiana State Penitentiary

    These photographs, taken at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, make up the collection Grace Before Dying, which looks at how, through hospice, volunteer inmates assert and affirm their humanity in an […]

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  • What is a columbarium? (Interview)How the San Francisco Columbarium captures life and death through the cremation urn niche

    What is a columbarium? (Interview)
    How the San Francisco Columbarium captures life and death through the cremation urn niche

    Emmitt Watson has been the caretaker of the Neptune Society’s San Francisco Columbarium for over 25 years, and has gathered the stories to match the years. He has seen this […]

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  • “On Death and Dying”The landmark text on grief: Is it still relevant?

    “On Death and Dying”
    The landmark text on grief: Is it still relevant?

    On Death and Dying remains one of the most influential American psychiatrists of the twentieth century. Her “five stages of grief” model– alternately called the “Kübler-Ross model”– is still widely […]

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  • “Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes.”
    -Benjamin Franklin

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