An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
Why not go gently into that good night?
My Father’s Sign
When a father dies, you are left with at once so many stories and never enough.
Bodies of Water
Disappearance is not just a euphemism for state murder; it’s intrinsic to capitalism’s need for disposable classes
How Ought We Die?
Secular medicine’s original exclusions prevent us from understanding the process of death
Stoppage Time
A network rubbernecks its own disaster in real time, but we feel it as always just after and already just elsewhere
A Reformist in Hell
Law professor Robert A. Ferguson’s critique of the U.S. prison system misses the point that its purpose is not rehabilitation but civic death
Dead Can Dance
Thomas Laqueur’s forthcoming book investigates the continuing life of the dead through a long history of European mourning and remembrance
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
Death comes whenever, always in season and always out of season
Insuring the Dead
Inside the business of corpse-repatriation insurance
Death Stares
Reports of a general “death taboo” have been greatly exaggerated. But there remains a disconnect between the shiny and seemingly disembodied memorials on social media platforms and the presence of the corpse