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Death

Fiction

Small Blue Thing

Poe's "The Raven," reimagined

" That's right, buddy, the crow is talking. Pinch yourself; it isn't a dream. The crow is talking. Feed me meat."

Madison Smartt Bell Harper's Jan 2000 15min Permalink

Fiction

The Suicide Room

New fiction from the author of 2010's Mr. Peanut.

"All of Patricia’s family pictures are still inside. Her clothes are still in the drawers. Her Garfield posters are still up on the walls. Everything."

Adam Ross Five Chapters Jan 2011 30min Permalink

The Real CSI

A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.

A.C. Thompson, Lowell Bergman, Mosi Secret, Sandra Bartlett ProPublica Feb 2011 20min Permalink

Tech

Cyberspace When You're Dead

The new purgatory; what becomes of digital identities after death.

Rob Walker New York Times Magazine Jan 2011 Permalink

The Frozen Ladder

Notes on a summer spent aboard an industrial fishing boat off the Alaskan coast.

Julia Gronnevet n+1 Nov 2003 10min Permalink

Science

Letting Go

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

Atul Gawande New Yorker May 2011 50min Permalink

Best Article Science

As Good as Dead

Is there really such a thing as brain death?

Gary Greenberg New Yorker Aug 2001 20min Permalink

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