Tag: Death
COVID deaths are now barely mentioned in the media. That changes the very nature of grief
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About a year ago, many of us were in lockdown. State premiers fronted the media every day to reveal how many people had...
Sunday essay: on reckoning with the fact of one’s death
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A friend is sending me documents needed to make me the executor of his will. He does not expect to die from...
‘I want to stare death in the eye’: why dying inspires so many writers and artists
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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It may seem paradoxical, but dying can be...
THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.
It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...
WEEKENDS & HOBBIES & ROAST DINNERS
I was asked a few questions recently by a new friend that really had me thinking. Scrambling for answers actually, and aware of the...
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...