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Science Confirms That Life Flashes Before the Eyes Upon Death

by Elaine Velie April 4, 2022April 11, 2022

It’s been an age-old trope in literature and film but now brain scans suggest it’s true.

Posted inFilm

Glimpse Heaven and Other Afterlives With Films About Life After Death

by Dan Schindel October 19, 2020November 5, 2020

Here are some entertaining movies about the afterlife to watch.

Posted inFilm

How Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson Killed Her Father Multiple Times (for a Movie)

by Dan Schindel October 8, 2020December 10, 2020

The documentarian talks to Hyperallergic about Dick Johnson Is Dead, and how “we need new language to allow for the extreme diversity that is life and death.”

Posted inFilm

Using Strange Humor to Grapple With Loss

by Dan Schindel September 25, 2020November 5, 2020

Jan Oxenberg grapples with the loss of her grandmother in Thank You and Good Night, a film that’s fallen into obscurity since 1991 but is now available to stream.

Posted inArt

An Innovative Design Solution to the Messy Matter of Cremation

by Ellie Duke January 28, 2020February 3, 2020

“Ashes were providing such a poor user experience,” said Justin Crowe, founder of Parting Stone, a company that turns cremated remains into solidified stone-like objects.

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My Session with an Artist Who Helped Me Confront Death

by Emily Wilson August 22, 2018August 21, 2018

Lindsay Tunkl’s performance series, Parting Practice: Rituals for Endings and Failure, invites participants to practice parting from ambitions, hopes, possessions, friends, family, and your life.

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Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori

by Allison Meier October 16, 2017

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.

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Photographs Revisit the Places Terminally Ill Patients Chose to See Before They Died

by Allison Meier October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

“Once visited by these terminal patients, these places aren’t just places anymore, they turn into monuments,” artist Hrair Sarkissian said of his Last Scene project.

Posted inBooks

A Guide to Architects’ Mundane and Monumental Graves

by Allison Meier June 8, 2017June 8, 2017

The architects of our great landmarks are often buried beneath the humblest of tombstones, or have no marker at all.

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Photographs from the World’s Largest Human Decomposition Center

by Allison Meier March 27, 2017March 28, 2017

For his series The Washing Away of Wrongs, Robert Shults photographed the forensic research of the world’s largest center for studying human remains at Texas State University.

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Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes

by Allison Meier March 20, 2017March 20, 2017

After the loss of her father and a close friend, Heide Hatry began making portraits where her subjects’ faces are delicately recreated with their own cremated remains.

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Restoring a Tiffany Mosaic and Its Ethereal Light to a Bronx Cemetery

by Allison Meier November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

The Tiffany-designed 1914 Swan Memorial in the Bronx’s Woodlawn Cemetery is being restored after over a century of deterioration in the open air.

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