Category Archives: Something Special

Over 90,000 Americans sit on a waitlist for a kidney transplant, vastly outnumbering the amount of available deceased donors. But a growing network of living donors offers hope to those asking for a miracle.

  Loneliness can be a challenge for elderly adults — never more so than now, after more than a year of pandemic-related social distancing measures. Recently, some U.S. states have been turning to online learning platform GetSetUp to improve connection … Continue reading →

How to pay for funeral expenses is usually the last thing on the mind of someone who’s recently lost a loved one. However, it is a practical task that everyone who prepares to say goodbye to a family member who … Continue reading →

Over 35 years after the Philadelphia police department dropped a bomb on its own citizens, the whereabouts of the remains of two victims is unknown. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology had been the home of the … Continue reading →

Can you imagine telling someone their husband had died through a text message? The idea is almost unthinkable. Such traumatic news is usually delivered through intimate, private conversations between friends, family and medical professionals. But what about the death of … Continue reading →

The past 14 months have caused a complete reimagining of how we mourn and memorialize. How do we celebrate and remember the lives of our loved ones if we can’t gather? Virtual wakes and Zoom funerals have cropped up with … Continue reading →