“Space burials sell a shot at immortality.”
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All True At Once
You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.
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What We Search For
“What they searched for wouldn’t look like a body, not anymore.”
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Technology That Lets Us “Speak” to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready?
“Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.”
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Why Did Walter Springs Die?
“In time, it was almost as if he had never existed at all.”
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The Night Raids
“A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.”
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Identity Crisis
“In a checklist of responses to a large-scale disaster, victim identification comes low down the pecking order.”
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‘That Girl is Going to Get Herself Killed’
Krista Diamond | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,342 words) In 2012, I was working at a hotel in Glacier National Park when a man I’d just met invited me for a day of tubing and drinking beer on the river. Little did I know, I would nearly drown in the rapids. But […]
Posted inCulture
The Death Artist
Her medium: the cremains of departed loved ones. Her mission: to change your perspective on the end of life.
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The Mushrooms That Ate Luke Perry
As good as the headline is, the piece is even better — an essay about the actor’s afterlife plans that doubles as an elegy for privacy, nostalgia, and everything else we carry with us through this world. His heart, inside his chest, inside the mushroom burial shroud, was pressed against the silty soil left behind by […]