(This is my 1000th post.)
I take regular walks through a cemetery in my neighborhood and recently noticed a new grave for a twelve-year boy who had been killed in a car accident. Coincidentally, on one of my walks, I encountered the parents of the young boy who were visiting their son’s gravesite. Continue reading The Stoics on Death (Walking Through a Cemetery)
Perhaps no one has written more eloquently about growing old than the great philosopher Bertrand Russell Continue reading Bertrand Russell: “How To Grow Old”
I have written previously (here and here) about the impending death of the great author and neurologist Oliver Sacks. Now his death is no longer impeding. Continue reading Oliver Sacks Died This Morning
Above is the only picture I can find on the entire internet of Zion Cemetery in St. Louis. Continue reading Cemeteries
David Hume died August 25, 1776. Here are some details from Wikipedia:
Diarist and biographer James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death, which was from some form of abdominal cancer. Continue reading Adam Smith on David Hume’s Death