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-29 posts tagged "Death"
Genevieve Coleman | Wednesday, March 24, 2021
As I was writing this column, my mind kept drifting back to one of the most profound and highly contentious debates I have ever participated in through my more than 14 years of Catholic schooling: whether pets go to Heaven. As a 19-year-old who considers herself somewhat educated, I can now comprehend the theological foundations
Trevor Lwere | Thursday, October 29, 2020
Death is a brutal reminder of our mortality. Renown economist John Maynard Keynes said that “in the long run, we are all dead.” Unlike Keynes who used the inevitability of death to advocate a greater role for government intervention in the economy, I would like to employ the inevitability of death for a different purpose:
Gabriel Niforatos | Wednesday, February 5, 2020
On January 26, 2020 a helicopter crashed near Calabasas, California, and all nine individuals on board died. Among the victims of the crash were basketball legend, husband, father and creator Kobe Bryant as well as his 13 year-old, Gianna. It is difficult to say what Kobe Bryant meant to me, what he symbolized, when I
Ellen Geyer | Wednesday, January 29, 2020
I think that perhaps we die a thousand tiny deaths before the final one comes, bringing along an irrevocable change with the capital D it bears. Despite their seeming finality, these minute, foregone conclusions serve simply as short stops along the way, marcations of the immeasurably painful, albeit survivable crises in our lives. Survivable? At
Ciara Hopkinson | Thursday, October 31, 2019
Located on the edges of campus, Notre Dame’s two cemeteries go largely unnoticed, serving instead as the backdrop of students’ everyday walks to and from campus. As home to not just one, but two, cemeteries, the University is distinct for this fact among its peers. Both the Cedar Grove Cemetery on Notre Dame Avenue and
Willoughby Thom | Thursday, September 19, 2019
Daniel Johnston is a name that will forever be remembered but only by a select few — a small, devoted following who considers him the most influential songwriter, artist and outsider to have ever walked this earth. Johnston passed away at his home in Waller, Texas, on Sept. 11 at the age 58. If you’re
Gary Caruso | Thursday, December 6, 2018
In this loveliest of seasons when our hearts and homes have traditionally been filled with peace, joy and happiness, the last 10-day span has become a time of loss for me. It began with the recent passing of my 14-year-old (101 in dog years) German Shepherd named Peso. Then our 41st President George H.W. Bush
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Death, life’s only fixity, is also its only natural sweetener (certified 100 percent organic), and as such, its stoic presence illuminates all the feeble estuaries — love, fear or, as Roland Barthes writes, “events, setbacks, annoyances” — flowing around its immovable presence. Death turns these meager rivers into juice and soda, flavored with granules of
Soren Hansen | Monday, April 9, 2018
As April rolls around, I’ve been thinking about the two things which that old joke guarantees in life: death and taxes. Besides inevitability, they’ve got something else in common — I fear both death and taxes. Even so, it’s important to remember death (and your taxes, due April 15th — don’t forget). As a culture,
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Phil Elverum takes the stage clad in a simple white t-shirt and loose-fitting chinos. A dead pine rots — in the most comforting way — by his side. He begins playing guitar, the tones of which lacerate the audience, segmenting their collective consciousness into a smattering of individual reactions. Each person, now alone in the