Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes’ hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He’s been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years.
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A dying woman chooses friends over her husband in ‘Some Bright Nowhere’
A woman with a terminal diagnosis asks her husband to leave the house in Ann Packer’s new novel. Some Bright Nowhere is an absorbing book about end-of-life care and what the living owe the dying.
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We’re all going to die. What now? ‘The Life of Chuck’ sits with this question
Tom Hiddleston stars in the new adaptation of Stephen King’s novella — which is somehow a very sweet film about the inevitable approach of death.
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Her parents died 9 days apart, but Sarah Silverman gets the last laugh in ‘PostMortem’
Silverman’s father and stepmother are buried under one tombstone that reads: “Janice and Donald, who loved to laugh.” The loss was a starting point for Silverman’s “cathartic” Netflix comedy special.
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Final Destination still works — here’s why
The long-running franchise taps into a common fear: You’re going to die eventually, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Final Destination Bloodlines is the sixth installment.
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‘The Shrouds’ introduces a new stage of grief: Watching your loved one decompose
David Cronenberg’s thriller centers on an unusual technology that allows people to watch their loved ones decompose in real time. The Shrouds is both deeply morbid and disarmingly funny.
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After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs
Live Fast won France’s top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud’s haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier.
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‘I wanted to buy her time’: A mother looks back on her daughter’s terminal cancer
Sarah Wildman’s daughter Orli died at age 14. “She would sometimes ask me, ‘What do you think I did to deserve this?’ And of course, that’s not an answerable question,” Wildman says.
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‘I was broken and needed help’: After her father died, a stranger stepped in
When Roxanne Olson found herself in the middle of a security scare at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, a woman walked up to her and said: “I’m here to help people like you.”
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How bad is maternal mortality in the U.S.? A new study says it’s been overestimated
The peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says a pregnancy checkbox on national death certificates inflates the death rate.
