Death Week
Join us here, digital and disembodied, for a kaleidoscopic descent into what awaits us six feet under.
Death Poems from Eileen Myles
From expiring cats to Hitler’s bathroom, the inimitable writer shares the terminal poetry they like best.
Few Drugs Like Dying
Rayan El Amine on psychedelics, Near-Death Experiences, and the living that follows.
Generation Death
Why are young people drawn, in growing numbers, to jobs that confront life's end?
Don't Come to My Grave Without a Drum
Lines on death by the Persian master, selected by his translator Haleh Liza Gafori.
Why We Die
Venki Ramakrishnan says there's no gene for death.
Sense and Senescence
A professor ponders how Jane Austen prepares us for death.
Life in the Shadow
Harry Weil of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery talks to artist Eiko Otake about confronting death.
Is Aging a Disease?
Are decaying, aging, and dying truly scientifically predestined? And could there be a cure? To learn more, PW Director of Sciences Janna Levin hosted two brilliant biologists in conversation: Prof. David Sinclair of Harvard and Prof. Ali Brivanlou of Rockefeller University.
Death Cafes Are Alive!
A growing number of "death cafes" are helping people break old taboos around dying and death.
Telling the Bees
There’s one insect that humans, since ancient times, have entrusted with death.
The Graveyard Shifts Again
Reimagining the cemetery as social space in the age of industrialized death.