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Death in One Day: Inside Canada’s Assisted-Suicide Machine
‘Hastening death becomes the path of least resistance,’ says a medical ethicist as Canada nears 110,000 MAID deaths.
Rupa Subramanya
Things Worth Remembering: James Van Der Beek Was the Best of Us
The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, who died Wednesday at 48, sought to teach his kids “how easy it can be to laugh, to love, to cry, to learn . . .and to find…
Mary Katharine Ham
Death Is Nothing to Be Feared
We walk backward into our own graves, so filled with denial, because we’ve lived not really thinking that death could one day happen to us.
Martin Shaw
My Wife Accepted Her Death. Why Can’t I?
I do the things they tell you to do to mitigate grief. It helps, but it doesn’t erase the loss of a connection that had been transformed over time from…
Michael Friedman
Editors’ Picks: Jimmy Lai, Norman Podhoretz, and Rob Reiner
Check out our pieces on the lives and legacies of three extraordinary men.
The Editors
Rob Reiner Deserved a Happily Ever After
He wasn’t supposed to be this talented and he wasn’t supposed to be this nice. But he was.
Hadley Freeman
Charlie Kirk’s Final Message to America
Charlie Kirk finished writing a book just months before he was murdered. This exclusive excerpt is about the importance of observing the Sabbath—and why…
Charlie Kirk and Erika Kirk
David Mamet: Tom Stoppard and Me
The legendary playwright was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works.
David Mamet
Iryna Zarutska’s Killer Does Not Deserve to Die
The execution of the schizophrenic man who stabbed a Ukrainian refugee on a train would be an act of cruelty, not justice.
Sally Satel
The Chess World Just Lost Its Best Ambassador
Given Daniel Naroditsky’s sense of fair play, his decency, and his intellectual honesty, perhaps the chess world did not deserve him. But we got him…
Coleman Hughes
I’m a Mortician. I Love My Job.
I live in the middle ground, handling the bodies of the dead with enough grace to touch the souls of the living.
Victor M. Sweeney
Things Worth Remembering: Your Work Can Outlive You
The poet’s project is to connect with the kind of ancient beauty that has lasted for millennia, and will stay vital long after our own short lives have…
Spencer Klavan
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