Death 101: Life Lessons from the Country’s Only Degree Devoted to the End
Some first-year arts students are asked to write papers about Plato or Jane Austen; thanatology students need an existential sensibility
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Early Warning Signals: How Poetry Helps Us Understand Our Impact on Ecology
The environmental crisis is, in part, a crisis of the imagination. Poems can create a new form of knowing
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Grief Struck Me Speechless. Learning a New Language Helped Me Open Up
An impulsive decision to take Spanish classes became a turning point after the deaths of loved ones
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Death in the Age of Facebook
What it’s like to mourn a mother via social media
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Why We Find It So Hard to Describe Grief
Sometimes the best way for writers to express loss is to avoid it entirely
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How a son learned to live with the death of his father
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