Giving Our Bodies Back to the Earth: The Rise of Natural Burial | Atmos

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Climate Solutions12.11.2025What if your body could nourish the land long after you’re gone? As the founder of Larkspur Conservation, a conservation burial site, John Christian Phifer is replanting our relationship to death.I was born January 31 in a small town…

A New Cookbook Compiles Recipes From Gravestones Around the World

www.eater.com

Pumpkin pie, caramel apples, and candy corn usually signal the start of spooky season, but, this month, author and archivist Rosie Grant encourages cooking enthusiasts to ring in October differently. Her cookbook of recipes sourced from gravestones makes a macabre…

What Do Animals Understand About Death?

The New Yorker

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it means to die.

The Day Ram Dass Died

The New Yorker

I woke up every thirty minutes the night before Ram Dass died. Stretching my perception through the big divider that separated his study—where I lay on a narrow couch—from his bedroom, I’d count the seconds between the short, ragged breaths churning through his sleep-apnea machine.

My Fathers Death in 7 Gigabytes

WIRED

It was a reasonable death. He was 90 and took the inevitable final turn in late March. “I think this is it,” my brother said from the nursing home. “They brought in the snack cart.”  I went to Baltimore and fished a ginger ale out of a bowl of melting ice and sat by the bed.

Sudden Death

Slate Magazine

On Nov. 7, 2022, I died. The voice responded: “You’re in the ICU. You had a heart attack during your hockey game last night. A player on the other team saved your life.”