Death and Dying

July 27, 2022

The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn

In a Brooklyn subway station one April morning, as commuters waited for a G train, a 44-year-old man named Daniel Auster was found unconscious on a […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
December 26, 2017

The Avalanche of Rock ‘n’ Roll Death

Andre Calilhanna, like countless kids before him, fell hard for rock ‘n’ roll. It was the early 1980s in suburban Maryland and his parents were Middle-Eastern […]
July 7, 2017

Vows: For This Couple, It’s Death Till They Part

Vows By TAMMY La GORCE Not counting dachshunds, cameramen and the dearly departed, about 70 souls gathered at Susan Numeroff’s house in Manhattan on June 23 […]
August 11, 2016

Social Q’s: May I Ignore Orders My Mother Says My Dead Nana Is Sending?

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My single mother, 65, is selling the house where I grew up. She told me the buyers asked if they could […]