death & dying

Folks, when my great-grandson came to Here for a visit I took him for a long walk at the Oleander home place along No Mile Creek. He needed some outdoors,…

Hello, I’m Lynne Hewes. I’ve just finished reading the books on HPPR’s Radio Readers’ fall list—and I’m not at all depressed.When I discovered that our…

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast is a compelling graphic memoir about the struggle Chast goes through as she watches her parents…

I’m Jonathan Baker, a writer in Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk a little about this month’s Radio Readers Book Club Read, Can’t We Talk About…

North American Indian burial practices varied widely across the continent. In some of these cultures, the recently deceased’s name was never spoken again…

My mother once told me that women who garden can reconcile themselves to the cycle of life and death more peacefully. I have kept up gardening, perhaps…

The novel Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese is about a boy, Franklin Starlight, whose ne’er do well father shows up in his life not to help him as a…

Hi, Radio Readers – I’m Melany Wilks talking to you from my home in Colby, KS.I had been told by a friend to read the book, Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande.…

Elizabeth Kubler Ross once called America a “death-denying society,” a description not necessarily shared across cultures. In Bhutan – one of the happiest…

Cremations are on the rise in southwest Kansas, reports the Garden City Telegram. In fact, some funeral home directors expect cremation may become the…