Defining Hope
In a pioneering New York City hospice, dying patients gain agency over their end-of-life decisions and offer illuminating lessons on what is most important in life.
Hospice
A Good Enough Death
What does it look like to die well?
Creating the New American Buddhist Funeral
How the at-home death movement can provide a dignified, personal, and meaningful send-off (whether we’re Buddhists or not).
CultureMagazine | Film, Reviews
Everyday Mortality
Netflix ventures into a contemplation of impermanence with End Game
A Good Death
Aiming for any preferred version of death is fraught with opportunities for disappointment and rejection when the time comes.
Personal Reflections Death & Dying
Washing The Dishes, Waiting For Death
How finding moments of quiet among her daily tasks helped one writer prepare for her father’s death.
Washing My Boy’s Body
When a hospice counselor is called to the bedside of a child who has just died, he leads the parents through a Buddhist ritual for cleaning the body. In the process, he guides them through the…
The Miracle of the Ordinary
Why the only way to approach “The Great Mystery” is to give up on the idea of doing.
Interview with the Deathwalker
Tricycle talks to a leader of Australia’s Natural Death Care Movement about what it means to take death into your own hands.
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