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A woman grieving her parents (Justin Paget/Getty Images)

My parents died and left me 34 fish

Becky Robison
Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in "Harold and Maude" (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

Harold taught me to not fear death

Kelly McClure
James Van Der Beek (Michael Buckner / Deadline / Penske Media via Getty Images)

Van Der Beek dead at 48

Alex Galbraith
Vadim Kruglov in Times Square. At left, an aerial view of Black Rock City, the temporary desert site of Burning Man. (Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Maxar / Courtesy Kruglov Family)

A Burning Man dream ends in tragedy

Nicole Karlis
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Ghostly woman at Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. (wanderluster/Getty Images)

Ghost tourism profits on death’s denial

Andi Zeisler
Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff in "The White Lotus" and a Cerbera odollam tree (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Jouan/Rius / Gamma-Rapho / Fabio Lovino/HBO)

The truth of deadly "White Lotus" fruit

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Earth on fire (Getty Images/sankai)

Can humans wipe out all life on Earth?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Walking through darkness to the light (Getty Images/francescoch)

Pursuit of death on psychiatric grounds

Frieda Klotz - Undark
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Aubrey Plaza attends SAG-AFTRA Foundation Conversations - "My Old Ass" at SAG-AFTRA Foundation Robin Williams Center on October 30, 2024 in New York City. (Jason Mendez/Getty Images)

Aubrey Plaza addresses husband's death

Nardos Haile
ITHACA, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: HDC receiving staff prep arriving milk samples for testing at the Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University on December 10, 2024 in Ithaca, New York. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

First U.S. death from bird flu reported

Troy Farah
Patient care and service workers protest at UCI Medical Center in Orange, CA. (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Unions reduce the odds of dying: study

Nicole Karlis
Digital Brain Upload (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Uploading the brain to live forever

Matthew Rozsa
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Hope and Porsha Ngumezi pose together in a family photo. (Photo by Danielle Villasana/ProPublica)

Third woman dies from Texas abortion ban

Lizzie Presser, Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
A woman facing a cemetery (Photo illustration by Salon/Photo courtesy of the author/Getty Images)

What owning a cemetery taught me

Sarah Gundle
Dead body covered in sheet in hospital (Getty Images/MediaProduction)

The complex ethics of unclaimed bodies

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Pro-abortion activists rally for "reproductive rights and emergency abortion care" outside the US Supreme Court as it hears arguments in the Moyle v. United States case, in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Abortion ban deaths you won't hear about

Nicole Karlis
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John Amos (right) and daughter Shannon during Cure Autism Now Celebrates Third Annual "Acts of Love" - After Party at Lucques Restaurant in Los Angeles, California, United States. (J.Sciulli/WireImage for Cure Autism Now/Getty)

Family learned of Amos' death via media

Nardos Haile
Candi Miller with her husband, Alex Cardenas; son Christian; and daughter Turiya, whom she named after her sister. (Courtesy of Turiya Tomlin-Randall)

Death from Georgia's abortion ban fears

Kavitha Surana - ProPublica
Jonathan Benno, Naomi Pomeroy, Laurie Jon Moran, and other chefs attend the reception on day 2 of the New York Culinary Experience 2013 on May 5, 2013 in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for the New York Culinary Experience)

Naomi Pomeroy’s body has been recovered

Joy Saha
Naomi Pomeroy (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Naomi Pomeroy dies at age 49

Joy Saha
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A view from En-Neccar Hospital in Rafah, Gaza on December 27, 2023. (Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza, Israel and the end of my life

David Theo Goldberg
Norman Lear speaks on stage at the "Real To Reel: Portrayals And Perceptions Of LGBTQs In Hollywood" Exhibit at The Hollywood Museum on June 09, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Unique Nicole/Getty Images)

TV legend Norman Lear dies at 101

Joy Saha
A mixture of steam and pollutants are emitted from the Naughton coal-fired power plant November 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. (Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

Coal still kills thousands, study finds

Nicole Karlis
Taylor Swift performs during night two of "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos on November 19, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (TAS2023 via Getty Images)

Heat and a Swiftie's death in Brazil

Akielly Hu - Grist
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