My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)
The author didn’t plan to write about that 2014 trip through the Grand Canyon. Then he died.
Death
In the Future, Your Body Won’t Be Buried... You’ll Dissolve
The next big thing in the death business.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Extraction"
Two friends reside in the home of a deceased writer.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Three Days Later"
A soldier attempts to deliver a death notice.
The Greatest, At Rest
The planning of Muhammad Ali’s funeral.
'You Can't Give In'
What former NBA coach Monty Williams learned in the wake of losing his wife.
The Widowhood Effect
There is no script for losing a spouse in your 30s.
Death Is Real
A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.
The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death
A step-by-step account.
When Things Go Missing
Reflections on two seasons of loss.
One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die
A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.
American Vespers: The Ebbing of the Body Politic
A longtime Harper’s contributor considers America as he dies: “When I died, I died of many things: the failing systems; the weakening of age; the exhaustion of the long war against dying. Finally, I succumbed to the lack of ethics in a California hospital, killed by filth and neglect.”
The Rise of the Cities of the Dead
A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Maps and Legends"
Hallucinations and peculiar memories of a dead spouse.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Seeds"
The sprouting of seeds and an uncle's connection to his niece.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Evidence"
A detective, a mysterious murder, an unexpected confrontation.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Meat"
Dead bodies and small town sexual identity.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Bird (on Back)"
A couple deals with animal complications, unhappiness, and terminal illness.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "How To Fall In Love"
Lessons for dating and dying.
Unearthing the Secrets of New York's Mass Graves
Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Returning"
A woman's dead father appears at a farmer's market.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Step In"
A mysterious stone and the complexities of grief.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Tragic Tale of the Baron and His Wife"
A story of blame.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Elephant Man"
A young girl uses unusual coping mechanisms after her father's death.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Corpseless Shrouds"
A woman recalls an endless lifetime of near-death experiences.
