Results for keyword: death
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What should we do with our blink of time?
Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene.
by Stephen Trimble, May 31, 2012 -
What is that dead deer thinking about, and why is he hanging there?
A close encounter with a deer head on the wall of an inn leads to musings on death, immortality, ancient Egypt, Lenin and Trigger the Wonder Horse.
by Andy Seiple, Dec 22, 2011 -
The end is near -- the end of 2011
People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway.
by Alan Kesselheim, Dec 01, 2011 -
Finding reassurance in change: a review of Wild Comfort
In her new collection of essays, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature, Kathleen Dean Moore writes her way to the knowledge that "sorrow is part of the Earth's great cycles."
by Chérie Newman, Mar 20, 2011 -
Natural comfort
It seems romantic to die alone in the wild, until you begin to lose the people you love
by Ana Maria Spagna , Jun 12, 2009 -
Ashes
A woman and her son say their final goodbyes to a friend who committed suicide.
by Kathleen Dean, Sep 17, 2007 -
In search of greener pastures
Laina Corazon Coit and her brother, Rick Chase, want to create Colorado’s first natural burial ground and wildlife refuge on the eastern prairie
by Jennie Lay, Oct 30, 2006 -
The memory of mountains
The author remembers a long-ago hike up Pikes Pike with her mother, who later died having no memory of that hike, or of her daughter.
by Diane Sylvain, Sep 18, 2006 -
Mute, riven, blessed
All over the West, white roadside crosses and spontaneous, humble shrines mark the holy sites where the souls of human beings have left this world
by Brian Doyle, Apr 17, 2006 -
Resurrecting J. Thomas
The crumbling remains of a man named J. Thomas have a story to tell about life and death in the northern Colorado in the 1870s
by Laura Pritchett, Mar 20, 2006
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