Preamble Memento Mori By Lewis H. Lapham Learning how to die, as Michel de Montaigne once rightly said, is the unlearning of how to be a slave. More
Essay Mournful Creatures By Virginia Morell Humans may be the only animals who understand our mortality, but when it comes to grieving, we are not so unique. More
Essay Last Meals By Brent Cunningham The choice of the final meal contains a curious paradox: why mark the end of a life with the stuff that fuels it? More
Essay Squeak & Gibber By John Crowley Humanity’s greatest feat of rationality lies in the explanations we use to grapple with our own mortality. More
Essay Fond Farewells By Bess Lovejoy Jessica Mitford’s An American Way of Death took down an industry few people knew about, but that everyone would one day need. More
