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Secular Writer Describes Her Grief
In her book The Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion tries to make sense of her world after the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion ...
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Larry King's Fear of Death
The New York Times recently (2015) reported that television commentator Larry King "is obsessed with death." His day begins with reading obituaries, and ...
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Life List or Bucket List—Do We Need One?
A life list or a bucket list—the basic idea has been around ever since the fifth century B.C., when Herodotus' History sent Greeks eagerly across ...
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World Death Rate Holds Steady At 100 Percent
The satirical site The Onion ran a humorous (note: fictional) article with a biting truth. The article was titled "World Death Rate Holding Steady at ...
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No, This Time You Are Really Perma-Dead
We loved this article from Wired magazine about video games: "In videogames, death is rarely fatal. If you take a shotgun blast to the noggin, a ...
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Musician Jerry Lee Lewis Ponders the Afterlife
"Jerry Lee Lewis makes no apologies for his life," said Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian newspaper. He was described as "the rock 'n ...
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Actor Mark Ruffalo's Lesson in Mortality
In 2001, just as his first child was about to be born, actor Mark Ruffalo (known for his portrayal of Bruce Banner/The Hulk in the movie The Avengers) ...
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The 'British Schindler' Dies
Sir Nicholas Winton, famously dubbed the "British Schindler," died at the age of 106. Back in the 1930s he was a young stockbroker in London, ...
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Willie Nelson Chooses Reincarnation Over Hell
In It's a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson, Willie recounts his time as a "popular" Sunday School teacher at Metropolitan Baptist Church—a ...
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B.B. King on Heaven and Hell
"I don't know what happens after this life. I haven't had my mother or anybody else come back and tell me. I think hell is hell on earth. ...
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