Man Buried with 'Tools for His Escape'

When someone requests a grave with a view, it’s usually a plot overlooking a valley or an ocean—not an actual window down to the casket underground. ...

The World's Oldest Man Replaced Bitterness with Sweetness

On August 11, 2017, the world's oldest man passed away, just a month short of his 114th birthday—making him one of the 10 longest lived men ...

MIT Professor on Our Yearning for Immortality

American physicist and author Alan Lightman is a professor at MIT. He contemplates the day of his daughter’s wedding:

It was a perfect picture of ...

A Grocery Line Where Slower is Better

1.3 million people in the Netherlands are older than 75—and one large supermarket chain is making sure they’re not getting too lonely in their ...

'Family Ties' Star Justine Bateman Says No to Plastic Surgery

Actor and director Justine Bateman has never gone under the knife and never will. The 55-year-old Family Ties actress is so perplexed by society’s ...

Gifts Which Are Difficult to Accept

Tim Keller writes:

Imagine an aging man whose hearing is failing but who is in denial about it. He usually complains that it is other people who are mumbling. ...

George Clooney Is Skeptical About the Afterlife

In an interview with AARP The Magazine, actor George Clooney reflected upon his scooter accident in 2018, and mortality.

I’m not a particularly religious ...

The Resurrection of Christ and the Promise of Heaven

Malcolm Muggeridge writes:

Plenty of great teachers, mystics, martyrs, and saints have spoken words full of grace and truth. In the case of Jesus alone, ...

The Secret of Marital Love

In the novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, an old man is talking to his daughter about the secret of marital love between he and his late wife. He tells ...

Larry Ellison: ‘Death Makes Me Angry’

Author Adam Gollner, details the efforts to remedy the problem of death. At the cutting edge of this effort, we find some of the world's richest individuals. ...