Death Week

From expiring cats to Hitler’s bathroom, the inimitable writer shares the terminal poetry they like best.

Rayan El Amine on psychedelics, Near-Death Experiences, and the living that follows.

Why are young people drawn, in growing numbers, to jobs that confront life's end?

Lines on death by the Persian master, selected by his translator Haleh Liza Gafori.

Venki Ramakrishnan says there's no gene for death.

A professor ponders how Jane Austen prepares us for death.

Harry Weil of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery talks to artist Eiko Otake about confronting death.

Are decaying, aging, and dying truly scientifically predestined? And could there be a cure? To learn more, PW Director of Sciences Janna Levin hosted two brilliant biologists in conversation: Prof. David Sinclair of Harvard and Prof. Ali Brivanlou of Rockefeller University.

A growing number of "death cafes" are helping people break old taboos around dying and death.

There’s one insect that humans, since ancient times, have entrusted with death.

Reimagining the cemetery as social space in the age of industrialized death.