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What Lindsey Graham Understood
Those who hated the senator for not turning against Trump gave him too little credit for what he was able to achieve by forging a friendship with the…
Eli Lake
The Women Who Help People Die
They’ll plan your funeral, navigate medically assisted dying laws, and keep you company at the end. Death doulas are on the rise, across America—and I…
Kat Rosenfield
This Is My Dad’s Last Father’s Day
He has only days, maybe hours, left to live. But he saved his most profound lessons for the end.
Casey Babb
When I Lost My Daughter
The first cemetery never felt right for Miranda: black headstones in rigid rows along mowed grass. So we buried her a second time, in a wooded place…
Danielle Crittenden
Tough Love: My Mom’s Boyfriend Is So Annoying
‘He makes outlandish claims, like that he has cured his own diabetes,’ writes a 42-year-old reader who finds his widowed mom’s boyfriend profoundly…
Abigail Shrier
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
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