Death
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Business
Behind the Birth of an Anti-Vaccine Story
Before he received his second shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, there was little reason to think that George Watts Jr. was about to die. He was 24 and showed no obvious heath problems. His family said he lived cautiously. He spent most of his time playing ...
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World
In Los Angeles, the ‘Coroner to the Stars’ Has the Last Word
There is no medical examiner’s office in the world like the one in Los Angeles County, where investigations of sudden celebrity deaths come with the territory.
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Health
An ‘Unsettling’ Drop in Life Expectancy for Men
The News The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States grew to its widest in nearly 30 years, driven mainly by more men dying of Covid and drug overdoses, according to a new study in The Journal of the American Medical ...
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Health
How Aid in Dying Became Medical, Not Moral
The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the practice.
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World
Khaled Khalifa, Syrian Novelist ‘Exiled at Home,’ Is Dead at 59
His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning critical praise and an international readership.
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World
How a Young Activist’s Murder Has Been Gleefully Distorted Online
Because Ryan Carson was a liberal activist, social media trolls blamed his own politics for his death.
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Arts
This Above All: My Undying Obsession With ‘Hamlet’
For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.
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World
Monitor Condemns Rikers Violence as 9th Person Dies in Custody This Year
A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces the prospect of losing power over its jails.
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World
Some Key Facts About Fentanyl
It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.
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World
Why Is America Such a Deadly Place?
Death is excessive in America, and the more you look the more distressing the picture seems. You’ve probably heard about the “mortality crisis” in terms of its effect on average life spans — several years ago, after decades of steady improvements ...