TD Original
TD Original
Film
No Place for Sissies
Aug 30, 2024 An octogenarian filmmaker turns his camera down life’s homestretch.
TD Original
Preparing to Meet Your Maker, Plus Cake: The Life of a Death Cafe
Jan 25, 2024 Can the “death positive” movement help fix our dysfunctional relationship with the inevitability of human demise?2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: First Place, Visual Arts/Architecture/Literature Feature, Online
Belief & Religion
Inside the Growing Movement To Hold Space for Community Grief
Oct 18, 2023 Beginning as a response to environmental trauma, proponents of the trend seek to bring ritual back to a culture that has growingly become "grief-illiterate."
Race
Grave Dangers
Dec 19, 2022 Authorities helped erase a historic black cemetery in Virginia to clear way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center.
‘This Is Not a Drill’: WHO Urges the World to Fight Virus
Mar 5, 2020 With 17 times as many new infections outside China as in it, Italy and Iran close schools; travel and events are canceled; and markets yo-yo.
Chinese Doctor Who Sounded the Alarm About Virus Outbreak Dies
Feb 6, 2020 Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded by authorities in late December for "spreading rumors," succumbs to illness that has killed more than 560.
Kobe Bryant, His Daughter and 7 Others Die in Helicopter Crash
Jan 26, 2020 The sudden death at age 41 of the Lakers legend sets off an outpouring of grief; inquiry is underway at the scene near Calabasas, Calif.
Xi Calls Situation Grave as China Scrambles to Contain Virus
Jan 25, 2020 The president's remarks underline the urgent, expanding efforts to control the outbreak as Lunar New Year travelers hasten its spread.
‘Not Safe to Move’: Fire Threats Intensify in Australia
Jan 4, 2020 The death toll in the worst wildfire season in the country's history rises to 23 as residents are warned that the worst may be yet to come.
Grim Find: 39 Dead in One of U.K.’s Worst Human Trafficking Cases
Oct 23, 2019 Details about where the victims were from are scarce as police try to trace the movements of a cargo truck's container.