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How did a cemetery group amass $1.2 billion in assets—and so much power?

https://thewalrus.ca/death-care-gold-rush/

Dying with Dignity Canada played a huge part in the legalization of MAID. Few have the resources to oppose them

https://thewalrus.ca/dying-with-dignity-lobby/

Every summer, more than a hundred kids spend a weekend at Camp Erin swimming and canoeing. They also learn to deal with death

https://thewalrus.ca/notes-from-grief-camp/

An ER physician on the heavy costs of keeping patients alive when death is inevitable

https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-dilemma-are-hospitals-overtreating-patients-nearing-the-end/

Why a 1970s subculture that championed rebellion is back—and more morbid than ever

https://thewalrus.ca/gothic-revival/

What makes teenagers sign up for a degree program about dealing with death?

https://thewalrus.ca/podcasts-the-deep-dive-s1e16/

Some first-year arts students are asked to write papers about Plato or Jane Austen; thanatology students need an existential sensibility

https://thewalrus.ca/death-studies/

An impulsive decision to take Spanish classes became a turning point after the deaths of loved ones

https://thewalrus.ca/grief-struck-me-speechless-learning-a-new-language-helped-me-open-up/

Mr. Simbatye’s body had not yet begun to wither, but she opened the window in case his soul required an avenue of escape. Also because of the smell

https://thewalrus.ca/seahorse/

Cycling can be a joyous, community-building experience. But, as my family recently came to understand, it can also be fatal

https://thewalrus.ca/life-and-death-on-two-wheels/