Monday, March 2, 2015

Deathcetera: The week in death and mourning

A slow week. Which is good!

DEATH

Achieving a good death – via Alex Lickerman at Slate

Painter renders last meals of 600 executed prisoners – via Anna van Wagtendonk at PBS News Hour

Why we like to read the words of the dying – by Eve Wiseman at the Guardian

Death and . . . improv? – from Barbara Brotman at the Chicago Tribune

FUNERALS

Fascinating funeral traditions from around the globe – via Kate Torgovnick May at ideas.ted.com