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Voices In Time

8 | Tomis

Don’t Look Back

Ovid on resurrection. More

Voices In Time

1889 | New York City

Mistakes Were Made

A guide to avoiding premature burial. More

Voices In Time

1833 | London

One or Two Heartbreakers

Some goodbyes are harder than others.More

Voices In Time

c. 500 BC | Ephesus

Carted Off All the Same

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths.More

Voices In Time

1927 | Charlestown, MA

The Day Will Come

Bartolomeo Vanzetti goes on the record.More

Voices In Time

1437 | Hanyang

Crackdown

Choson Dynasty mourning etiquette.More

Voices In Time

1623 | London

Involved in Mankind

For John Donne, no man is an island.More

Voices In Time

1862 | Virginia

Eve of Battle

Clara Barton reports from the frontline.More

Voices In Time

c. 2001 | Knoxville

Examining the Cadavers

Mary Roach visits a decay facility.More

Voices In Time

1892 | Iran

Surviving a Plague

Gertrude Bell tries to stay healthy. More

Voices In Time

c. 1600 | Denmark

Finite Jest

William Shakespeare clowns around among the graves.More

Voices In Time

1842 | Philadelphia

Plague Party

Edgar Allan Poe welcomes Death to the party.More

Voices In Time

c. 1862 | Amherst, MA

Housecleaning

Emily Dickinson observes a departure. More

Voices In Time

2012 | Moscow

Offering a Solution

Dmitry Itskov explains Neohumanity.More

Voices In Time

1918 | Yekaterinburg

Between Method and Execution

Disposing of the Romanovs. More

Voices In Time

1854 | London

Morbid Diary

John Stuart Mill anticipates the end.More

Voices In Time

1849 | Filey

Gone Like Dreams

Charlotte Brontë grieves for her brother and sisters.More

Voices In Time

1863 | Gettysburg

What We Say Here

Lincoln at Gettysburg.More

Voices In Time

c. 710 | Kyushu

Lost Child

Yamanoue no Okura on the death of his son.More

Voices In Time

c. 500 | Persia

To the Dogs and the Birds

The Zoroastrian way of death.More

Voices In Time

c. 1360 | Shiraz

The Caged Bird Sings

Hafez seeks a heavenly home.More

Voices In Time

1836 | London

In the Name of Love

In one long yellow string I wound, three times her little throat around.More

Voices In Time

c. 1573 | Aquitaine

Living at Life’s Expense

Montaigne considers death and life.More

Voices In Time

1390 | Japan

Walking in Circles

The dangers of thinking too much.More

Voices In Time

1926 | New York City

Receiving the Summons

She is not dead, she’s resting in the bosom of Jesus.More

Voices In Time

1849 | Cape Cod

Natural Law

Henry David Thoreau meditates upon a shipwreck. More

Voices In Time

c. 58 BC | Egypt

The Fable of Hell

Diodorus Siculus observes an Egyptian funeral.More

Voices In Time

1951 | Wales

Protest Song

Dylan Thomas rages against the dying of the light.More

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