Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose to honor. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38[...]
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From ‘Frankenstein’ to ‘Dracula,’ exploring the dark world of death and the undead offers a reminder of our mortality
At first glance, a college course devoted to death might sound grim. But at the University of Tennessee, “Death, Dying, and the Undead” uses literature to explore what it means to live. From Wilfred Owen’s wrenching war poetry to Poe’s “Masque of[...]