Talking about death can be tough, writing down those thoughts even tougher. Robin Simonton's letter about death starts simply, “I don't do death.” It's an odd way to start a letter written to no one ...

A small group including friends and family of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, gathered ...

Before dying or almost dying, the conventional anecdote is that people see a flashback or a white light and have an out-of-body experience. But Barbara Olson, a retired social worker, saw darkness and ...

MILLS RIVER – During a burial, Caroline Yongue breathes in suffering. Yongue is the spiritual director at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, a conservation and green cemetery in Mills River, south of ...

Every Saturday at Congressional Cemetery, Laura Lyster-Mensh uses death to remind people how to live. She’s a death doula, and recently started a class called Death Doula Days at Congressional ...

A group of people gathered at Congressional Cemetery in D.C. on Saturday morning for an unusual reason: to practice dying. One by one, participants reclined on a makeshift bed, as Threshold Choir — a ...

In December 2022, musician Eden Rayz received a message from her friend Roy Hawes about a defunct pipe organ at Mount Auburn Cemetery that was being decommissioned and needed to be picked up, or it ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Ester Rabinovici “I dare ...