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An Annual Christmas Hello to a Departed Neighbor
For Mike Witmer, it began as a neighborly holiday game. Now it has become an enduring tribute. The Witmer’s Christmas lights were already up when ...
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Shock-Jock Struggles with Mortality
On a recent episode of The Howard Stern Show, the “shock-jock” host asked his guest, music legend Paul Simon, questions about music, life, ...
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Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus Reflects on Death
Actress and former Seinfeld star (as Elaine) Julia Louis-Dreyfus has had moments when tragedy and comedy get put in a blender. Monday, September 18, 2017, ...
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How John Stott Learned Total Dependence on God
Pastor John Yates III once worked for the British scholar and Bible teacher John Stott. Yates reflected on the time when Stott’s aging and disability ...
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Broken Heart Syndrome Is Real
A mere generation ago, “heartbreak” was an overused literary metaphor but not an actual medical event. The first person to recognize it as ...
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Paying $100k a Year to Fight Aging
Medical clinics are popping up across the country promising to help clients live longer and better—so long as they can pay. Longevity clinics aim ...
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Laughter Can Heal a Broken Heart
So, laughter really is the best medicine. A mere chuckle is enough to expand cardiac tissue and increase the flow of oxygen throughout the body, thus ...
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Professor Suggests Suicide for Japan’s Elderly
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, ...
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Human Dignity Devalued by Euthanasia Advocates
Conservatives are not alone in opposing the slippery slope that is the growing trend toward advocating for euthanasia. The liberal periodical The Nation, ...
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How Life Expectancy Statistics Mislead Us
The dramatic increase in life expectancy confuses people. In the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, the average life span was about 45 ...
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