Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.
"Baby Reindeer" has quickly become one of the most popular shows currently streaming on Netflix.Deadline Hollywood reported that the show has been watched 13 million times since its initial launch earlier this month. It currently sits in the top streaming spot in more than 30 countries around the world, including the U.S. and U.K.But it appears that some viewers have taken it upon themselves to find out who the fictional characters in the show are based on. Richard Gadd — who wrote the show that...
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
This multigenerational tale travels from China to New York in search of the true meaning of good fortuneIt’s often said that good luck is the result of good planning: you make your own. But is our luck in life ever entirely under our control? And how much luck, and planning, might be enough? Real Americans, Rachel Khong’s second novel, strikes directly at the heart of these questions. Its Chinese-American characters are brought into contact with fabulous wealth – a prototypical stroke of luck....
How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.
"The Sims had really kind of seeded that desire for homeownership in me at a young age," said Elle Hunt, a journalist based in the U.K. "And I'd spent the interim 20 years walking away from that dream a bit."
Liam Kirk's captaincy of Great Britain again proved a valuable asset as the side wrapped up a winning weekend of international ice hockey. Kirk had scored and assisted during GB's 3-1 win over Poland at Planet Ice Leeds on Friday. On Saturday night, the former Sheffield Steelers' forward led them to a 2-1 victory over the same opposition in Nottingham. This time the Maltby man assisted on a goal in regular time before the match went to a penalty shootout. With injured Steeler Robert Dowd out of...
The three-day event is geared towards getting people to talk more openly about death and their fears surrounding death and dying
In his new Peacock series Orlando Bloom: To the Edge, the actor Orlando Bloom scales a 400-foot crag, freedives 100 feet on one breath, and jumps out of a plane at 13,000 feet to try wingsuiting for the first time. His wellness practices, as he tells GQ, have involved a similar amount of gutsiness: getting dosed with frog poison, embarking on a fast that involves eating bentonite clay. More than 20 years after Bloom was first introduced to audiences worldwide as the platinum blond elf Legolas in...
“Some of us live and some of us die Someday God is going to tell us why I don’t travel much, least of all for social engagement, but it was both a duty and a pleasure to travel to Iperu in Ogun State on Easter Saturday to attend the 90th birthday celebration ofMrsOmobosolaOnaeko, mother to
Jimmy Carr has recalled how he almost died after contracting meningitis as a child. Speaking to Kathy Burke on her Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast, the 51-year-old comedian, 51, said he "nearly didn’t make it" when he was being treated in a hospital in Ireland at three years old. Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord that can cause life-threatening sepsis and result in permanent damage to the brain or nerves. "I kind of...