In honour of the Day of the Dead: a moving passage about the three deaths in Mexican tradition — bodily, burial, and being forgotten. We'd benefit, as a culture, from healthier rituals for the dead. S…
Ask most educated people what the leading cause of death is in a developed country and they'll say heart disease. But a provocative Ralph Keeney paper reframes this: the real leading cause of death is…
If you're in your late twenties or thirties, the odds that you'll die in a given year are very low — less than 0.15% for men, less than 0.07% for women. Pretty good odds. But in a group of 300 friends…