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Freud’s Radical Talking
Death is supposed to be an event proclaimed but once, and yet some deaths, curiously enough, need to be affirmed again and again, as if there were a risk that the interred will crawl back up into the...
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Werner Herzog on death, danger and the end of the world
Steve Rose talks to Werner Herzog about a new documentary on capital punishment, Into the Abyss. Some years ago, Werner Herzog was on an internal flight somewhere in Colorado and the plane’s landing...
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Mummified Bodies and Glowing Computer Screens. Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and...
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Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry
Saheera Sharif, the founder of Mirman Baheer (upper center); Ogai Amail, a poet and member of the group (bottom left); also pictured are other members of the poets’ group. In a private house in a quiet...
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What Happens to Consciousness When We Die
Where is the experience of red in your brain? The question was put to me by Deepak Chopra at his Sages and Scientists Symposium in Carlsbad, Calif., on March 3. A posse of presenters argued that the...
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The Francis Bacon Opera by Stephen Crowe
An absurd comedy that explores the mind of one of the 20th century’s most controversial painters. The Francis Bacon Opera chronicles an interview between Francis Bacon and Melvyn Bragg, as seen on an...
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Parasomnias: Can You Die From A Nightmare?
Doree Shafrir: It is the middle of the night, and there is something very wrong in my apartment. I leap up from my bed and rush to the closet and crouch down and throw aside my shoes, which are...
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Death: A Self-portrait
Wellcome’s winter exhibition showcases some 300 works from a unique collection devoted to the iconography of death and our complex and contradictory attitudes towards it. Assembled by Richard Harris,...
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Omega Suites: The Architecture of Capital Punishment by Lucinda Devlin
During the early nineties, Lucinda Devlin systematically took photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs and death cells in rural towns and cities in the United States. She entitled...
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Nishinihon Tenrei Funeral Services
When I think of funeral homes I think of muted colors like blacks, whites and greys. And indeed, funerals in Japan are largely a black & white affair, with any deviation from the code being...
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The Eye, the Brain, and What happens during Death Experience
Scout motto is “be prepared,” but it’s hard to be prepared for death, be it our own or a loved one’s. Too much is unknown about what dying feels like or what, if anything, happens after you die to...
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Letting Go
In 1968, a letter to The British Medical Journal titled “Not Allowed to Die” described the ordeal of a retired 68-year-old doctor admitted to “an overseas hospital” (almost certainly in America) with...
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Long Lives Made Humans Human
The fundamental structure of human populations has changed exactly twice in evolutionary history. The second time was in the past 150 years, when the average lifespan doubled in most parts of the...
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Death Is Not Final
If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body...
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How Your Great-Grandchildren Could Talk to You Decades after Your Death
Humans have sought immortality since at least the 22nd century B.C., if the ancient story “Epic of Gilgamesh” is any indication. And if we’re looking for biological immortality, we might have to keep...
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