The video above records the last reflections on life and death by the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who had a long career at the UC-Santa Barbara. As a reader put it:
… there is an immediacy here that cuts to the bone … the impact can be overwhelming: we internalize it as a transcendent phenomenon–as if it were happening to us …
I have written previously about the impending death of the great neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Recently he published another moving piece in the New York Times. Continue reading Essays of the Dying: More From Oliver Sacks
The former LA Times staff writer Laurie Becklund died on February 8 in Hollywood, CA of breast cancer. Before she died she penned a moving essay about death and dying Continue reading Essays of the Dying: Laurie Becklund
Emily Debrayda Phillips, 69, died on March 25, 2015 of pancreatic cancer. She wrote her own obituary within a few days of her February 24 diagnosis. It begins Continue reading Essays of the Dying: Emily Debrayda Phillips
The New York Times recently published a moving essay by the grief therapist David Malham. The seventy-three-year-old Malham has been recently diagnosed with ALS. He begins his essay Continue reading Essays of the Dying: Grief Therapist David Malham