but it may soon end with them. On a frigid February morning, last night’s snowfall blanketed the hamlet in a cocoon of snow. Ichio, a man of great health for his age, shoveled snow out of his ...

When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes. Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from ...