Death and Dying

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A Brief History Of Artists Grappling With Loss And Death By Priscilla Frank (The Huffington Post)
A Dying Physician and the Meaning of Care By Paul C. McLean
After A Freak Accident, A Doctor Finds Insight Into 'Living Life And Facing Death' By Terry Gross (NPR)
A Greener Funeral.org
Alternate Endings: how the funeral business is being 'disrupted' By Adrian Horton (The Guardian)
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America Directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (HBO)
A Mortician Talks Openly About Death, And Wants You To, Too -- An Interview with Caitlin Doughty (Fresh Air - NPR)
A Passionate Defense of Selfies at Funerals By Caitlin Doughty
A Physician Explores 'A Better Path' To The End Of Life - An Interview on Fresh Air with Jessica Zitter (NPR)
Academy Award-nominated film ‘End Game’ examines end-of-life care By PBS NewsHour (PBS)
After Father's Death, A Writer Learns How 'The Japanese Say Goodbye' By NPR Staff (NPR)
After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways To Cope By Barbara Bradley Hagerty (NPR)
Aging with Dignity
An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’ (Aeon)
As Planned, Right-To-Die Advocate Brittany Maynard Ends Her Life By Eyder Peralta (NPR)
At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death By Catherine Porter (The New York Times)
At the End of Life: A Blog About How We Die
Atul Gawande: On Being Mortal (Science Friday)
Being Mortal (Frontline)
Bodies Get Picked Clean By Vultures In The Name Of Science (Here & Now)
California Lawmakers: Time Is Right For "End Of Life Option" Law By Pauline Bartolone (Capital Public Radio)
Center for Dying & Living
Center for Health Care Decisions
Children’s Books About Death and Dying
Compassionate and Choices: End of Life Choice, Palliative Care and Counseling
Contemplating Brittany Maynard's Final Choice By Nancy Shute (NPR)
Death and Dying - New York Times Topics
Death, Dying & Beyond (Institute for Noetic Sciences)
Death with Dignity National Center
Doctor: Helping A Patient Die Will Never Become Routine (NPR)
Doctor Helps Iowa Couple Face Illness On Their Own Terms By Jenny Gold (NPR)
Doctors With Cancer Push California To Allow Aid In Dying By Anna Gorman (NPR)
Dr. Kate Granger: A doctor and terminally ill cancer patient musing about life and death
Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life (The National Academies Press)
End-of-life doulas: the professionals who guide the dying By Cecilia Saixue Watt (The Guardian)
Examining Suicide In Amador County By Beth Ruyak (Capital Public Radio)
Extremis: Between Science and Faith Lies the Ultimate Choice
Family Struggles With Father's Wish To Die By NPR Staff (NPR)
Fighting to Honor a Father’s Last Wish: To Die at Home By Nina Bernstein (The New York Times)
For the Dying a Chance to Rewrite Life By Alex Spiegel (NPR)
'Getting On' With It: A New HBO Show Doesn't Tiptoe Around Death (NPR)
Green Burial Council
Grief In The Classroom: 'Saying Nothing Says A Lot' By Elissa Nadworny (NPR)
Health Care Spending In America, In Two Graphs By Lam Thuy Vo and Jacob Goldstein (NPR)
Hello, May I Help You Plan Your Final Months? By Elana Gordon (NPR)
How Could A Doctor's Death From Ebola Possibly Be 'Good'? By Marc Silver (NPR)
How Doctors Die: It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be By Ken Murray
How Many Die From Medical Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals? By Marshall Allen (NPR/Propublica)
How to Die in Oregon (HBO)
Infographic Shows The Differences Between The Diseases We Donate To, And The Diseases That Kill Us
I Want to Talk About My Son Brooks By Rich Hill (The Players’ Tribune)
Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D.
Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D. -- Well Blog Posts at The New York Times
Let's Talk About Death (Here and Now)
Modern Loss
More Americans Are Dying at Home Than in Hospitals By Gina Kolata (The New York Times)
Morphine, And A Side Of Grief Counseling: Nursing Students Learn How To Handle Death By Blake Farmer (NPR)
Mother Orca Spotted Carrying Dead Calf For 17th Day By Nick Visser (HuffPost)
Moyers on Death: NPR's Fresh Air (see link at right)
National Alliance for Grieving Children
National POLST Paradigm
Nursing Homes (ProPublica Investigation)
Old Age and Death (Aeon)
Pain And Suffering At Life's End Are Getting Worse, Not Better By Jenny Gold (NPR)
POLST California
Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America (NPR)
Post Mortem: Frontline (PBS)
‘Prophylactic’ Suicide: A Sunday Dialogue from The New York Times
Radio Lab: After Life
Radio Lab: The Bitter End
Radio Lab: When Am I Dead?
Raising Grieving Children By Phyllis R. Silverman (Blog at Psychology Today)
'Right-To-Die' Proposal Sparks Tears, Impassioned Testimony at California Capitol By Pauline Bartolone (Capital Public Radio)
Rural Suicide: One California County’s Fight To Save Lives By Sammy Caiola (Capital Public Radio)
Sesame Street: Grief
Should I Help My Patients Die? By Jessica Nutik Zitter (The New York Times)
Stanford Center on Longevity
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Talking to Children About Death
10 Years After A Soldier's Death, How It Changed Lives By Alex Ashlock (Here and Now)
Terminally Ill, But Constantly Hospitalized By Fred Mogul (NPR)
The Brittany Maynard Fund
The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die Story by Andrew Keh Photographs and additional reporting by Lynsey Addario (The New York Times)
The Conversation Project
The Daily Challenges Of Learning To Be A Widow (Talk of the Nation: NPR)
The Digital Beyond
The Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children & Families
The End: Articles in this series examine how we die and what it tells us about how we live. (The New York Times)
The Final Call: the hidden epidemic of suicide among U.S. firefighters (Aljazeera America)
The Hastings Center - Bioethics and Public Policy
The iPhone at the Deathbed By Penelope Green (The New York Times)
The Lonely Death of George Bell Written by N. R. Kleinfield; Photographs by Josh Haner (The New York Times)
The Science of Near-Death Experiences By Gideon Lichfield (The Atlantic)
The Silicon Valley Suicides By Hanna Rosin (The Atlantic)
The Suicide Paradox (Freakonomics Radio)
The Swan Song Of A Teenage Ukulele Master (NPR)
The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death By Chana Joffe-Walt (NPR)
The 2 Things That Rarely Happen After A Medical Mistake By Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce (NPR)
The U.S. Suicide Rate Is at Its Highest in a Half-Century By Jared Keller (Pacific Standard)
The Wrong Goodbye By Joe Sexton and Nate Schweber (ProPublica)
'This Impromptu Dance': Geoffrey Holder's Son Tells One More Story By Leo Holder (NPR)
To Cope With Her Mother's Illness, Photographer Focuses On Aging Animals By Claire O'Neill
'Today We Are His Family': Teen Volunteers Mourn Those Who Died Alone By Arun Rath (NPR)
To Tibetan Buddhists, sky burials are sacred. To tourists, they’re a morbid curiosity (Aeon)
Understanding Hospice - And Then, When The Time is Right, Embracing It By Rosanna Fay
Undertaker: Slain Boston Bombing Suspect Should Still Be Tended To (NPR)
U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High By Sabrina Tavernise (The New York Times)
What happens to my online life when I die? An interview with Evan Carroll