New Philosopher – July 2019

NewPhilosopher On September 10, 1945, Lloyd Olsen was slaughtering chickens on hisfarminFruita,Colorado.Among hisunfortunatevict ...

21 NewPhilosopher Illustration by Aida Novoa & Carlos Egan Miracle Mike, the headless chicken ...

NewPhilosopher subjectivity.Lacking a name forthis condition,Jennett and Plum coined one:PersistentVegetativeState. PVSisn’t‘bra ...

that medical science will one day know how to revive and cure them. There are believed to be a few hundred people frozen in this ...

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NewPhilosopher Zan Boag: Death is a topic you have certainly focused on over the past eight years in your ‘Dead and Alive’ docum ...

Dead and alive NewPhilosopher managed to get a picture of this young boy looking into the coffin of the old man – there was a wi ...

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NewPhilosopher dying in his bed and he’d be there for three days and people would come by and it was not like something to put a ...

photographed victims of torture in Syria, I’ve documented things that are much worse than natural death. Most of the people I’ve ...

You’ve seen the way people grieve and they do have a language for it, and they do have rituals around death, which al- lows peop ...

Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Daniel is probably the last person who knows the traditional way of preserving a dead body with vin- ega ...

NewPhilosopher toask you “How do you feel?”be- causetheyknowyoudon’tfeelwell, butthey aretherefor youandthey areservingfoodforth ...

NewPhilosopher Dead and alive father’s life. I have heard of other fu- nerals, where kids from the family painted the coffin in ...

outside Madagascar, you have to come to this celebration. And when everyone is together they go to the tomb and they take out th ...

NewPhilosopher Dead and alive Maybe what happens in the west is that we don’t just bury the dead, we try to bury death itself. W ...

Madagascar. A member of the Ralaisomananas family died in between two Famadihanas and was buried temporarily in a coffin. He is ...

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Life’s too short NewPhilosopher Illustration by Yeyei Gómez ...

NewPhilosopher Life’s too short A few years ago, Iopenedthecal- culator app on my phone andfigured out that the standard humanli ...