The Death That Saved My Life
I was 28, a professional living in Palo Alto, six months into my marriage, when I suffered a stroke in my sleep.
It was a surprise. I’d been a college athlete …
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Tough Middle School Kids, Tougher Middle East Politics, Toughest Medical Decisions
The Nutshell: Journalist Tough interviewed psychologists, teachers, parents, students, and education administrators and reformers to find out how kids succeed—in school and beyond. The best predictors, it turned out, were less …
Reporter Lisa M. Krieger
Lisa M. Krieger is a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News. Before moderating a panel on what we can learn from doctors about how to deal with death, she …
City of Hope’s Shirley Otis-Green
Shirley Otis-Green is a senior research specialist at City of Hope and a social worker with experience in palliative care. Before participating in a panel on end-of-life choices, she talked …
Ken Murray
Dr. Ken Murray is the author of “How Doctors Die” and a retired family medicine physician and professor at the University of Southern California. Before participating in a panel on …
When We Die, Who Is Kind?
I am writing this piece as a middle-aged woman who recently lost her younger brother. We were “Catholic twins,” born 18 months apart in Kansas City. As kids, we fought. …
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