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Layla’s Spoon
A loving gesture that lingers beyond death Continue Reading Layla’s Spoon
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On Culture: All the Deaths are the Same
The last time I wrote, my uncle was dying. Continue Reading On Culture: All the Deaths are the Same
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On Culture: Death Out of Season
It is spring, and the cherry trees are flowering. It’s the wrong time of year for dying. Continue Reading On Culture: Death Out of Season
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4500 Heartbeats an Hour: Death in a Secular Age
When Dylan Brethour was 23, she moved into a funeral home. There, the very normalcy of death led her to contemplate how we approach the end of our lives. ...
Those Clear, Unblinking Eyes
He came out of the cell calmly at eight in the morning with nothing to say. The captain had never seen anyone come out of a cell so calmly.
The other ...
Death: A self portrait at the Wellcome Collection
One of the most resonating questions I was left pondering over was of representation. In many respects the contemplations of death, the associated images, the rituals and ceremonies built around ...
Promises You Can Keep
Pete leant on the washing machine, catching his breath, looking around. It was a big kitchen. Big and empty and incomplete, caught between one age and another, one owner and ...
Like the Robot in Buck Rogers
Nan may as well have been dead. She was on the sofabed in the front room. Sprawled, but rigid. Her hands were claw-like, yellowed and scaly. The room was cloudy ...