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Rutgers Health Study May Improve End-of-Life Care:
Medicare data analysis finds that people typically follow one of nine paths -
Mary Oliver’s “Heavy” Speaks to the Weight of Grief:
The poet eloquently conveys the dizzying effect of loss -
Did Our Ancestors Leave Behind a Map of the Afterlife?:
Archaeological discoveries suggest link between ancient monuments and burial sites
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“Why I Never Talk about My Mother” by Joe Cilluffo
A son contemplates the times when his father forgets his mother has died
When my father remembers my mother has died, when he realizes he had forgotten, and he cries — if that’s the word for those great, wracking peals of thunder I feel against me, holding the hollow tree he has become … Continue reading →
“The Wolves,” by Paisley Rekdal
A grandmother’s death by MAID is described in poetry
It was the week of asking. Asking to watch her eat. Asking if she understood the doctors’ questions. Asking her to explain the difference between wanting to die right now, and dying later. The tumor making certain answers unquestionable. I … Continue reading →
“The World Is a Beautiful Place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The world is actually more like a capricious place
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even … Continue reading →
“An Untitled Japanese Death Poem” by Kozan Ichikyo
A Zen monk’s final words offer insight into this world and the next
Empty-handed I entered the world Barefoot I leave it. My coming, my going — Two simple happenings That got entangled. This untitled poem by Kozan Ichikyo, written in 1360, represents a genre known as “jisei” or Japanese death poems, once … Continue reading →
“Greensickness” by Laurel Chen
A poem about how healing lasts forever
My wild grief didn’t know where to end. Everywhere I looked: a field alive and unburied. Whole swaths of green swallowed the light. All around me, the field was growing. I grew out My hair in every direction. Let the … Continue reading →
“Sudden” by Nick Flynn
A poet reflects on sudden loss
If it had been a heart attack, the newspaper might have used the word massive, as if a mountain range had opened inside her, but instead it used the word suddenly, a light coming on in an empty … Continue reading →