From Obit, a review of Greg Critser’s Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging; different ways to honor the dead: The age of someone’s demise affects the way we say goodbye; and mourning in the 21st century: What form says you’re sorry for their loss? A review of Dying to Know: Bringing Death to Life by Jane Tewson. A review of Surviving Death by Mark Johnston. What implications might technological advances have on our current definition of clinical death? An interview with Michael de Ridder, author of How Do We Want To Die? There’s a time, from when someone dies to when they magically pop up at the funeral or the cemetery or as a bag of ashes, that remains a black hole, invisible to the rest of the world, and everyone’s happy with the arrangement. An interview with David Eagleman: "We won't die — our consciousness will live forever on the internet". Alix Strauss on her book Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous and the Notorious. A review of No Good Deed: A Story of Medicine, Murder Accusations, and the Debate Over How We Die by Lewis Cohen. An excerpt from Last Words of the Executed by Robert K. Elder. Near-death experiences explained: Bright lights and angels seen at the brink of death are the products of too much carbon dioxide in the blood. A review of Life After Death: The Evidence by Dinesh D'Souza. A review of After Lives: A Guide to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory by John Casey. Robert Brockway on functional immortality in humans. In the last stage of life, even with the cheeriest outlook, it isn’t easy to keep thoughts of death at bay. Robert Brockway, author of Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead, on isolating the human longevity gene (so we can abuse the crap out of it).
