Part of my morning ritual walk, which is undertaken partly for exercise, partly as a kind of moving meditation practice, is to navigate this stretch of several hundred feet of shoreline adjacent to the local river. Because of its position, slightly downstream of the point where two branches of the river meet, tree trunks washed … Read moreWalking the boulder field
A short documentary on the work of pediatric palliative care physician, Dr. Nadia Tremonti. When a child is terminally ill, how can we make their end of life a better one?
Sociopathic altruist Tyler Durden offers life-and-death motivation in this scene from Fight Club (1999).
A heads-up that death doula Alua Arthur’s new book is available via this link: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End.
Death explains the human necessity of belief in fantasies in this scene from the television adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s novel The Hogfather.
Caleb Cucaro-Green explains the Aretheon approach to life and mortality.
A conversation about this upcoming residential retreat event in Vermont, which will combine permaculture praxis with mythopoetic art, ritual and philosophy on the memento mori ergo carpe diem theme.
Thomas Moynihan writes for the BBC on a novel immortality project proposed by the English historian and freethinker Frederic Harrison in 1890: With posterity on his mind, Harrison decided to write an article titled “A Pompeii for the Twenty-Ninth Century”. Leaping off from a forecast that London may one day be as “desolate” as the … Read more“If a Victorian historian had his way, there’d be a giant time capsule under Stonehenge”
A step-by-step guide to accepting and embracing your mortality to live a more fulfilling life In our modern culture, talking about death is often deemed morbid, or even taboo. But not long ago, contemplation of death was widely used as a powerful tool for countering fear, putting the difficulties of life in perspective, and helping … Read morePre-order Joanna Ebenstein’s “Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life”