💀 Memento Mori: A 26 Publication 💀

And so, we reach the end...

Do we ever get to the point of accepting the inevitability of death? Or are we permanently outraged by this one certainty in life?

Dec 22, 2025 • Margaret Kenna

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Seasonal Transitions: The Silence Keeper

Muting authentic grief to forget unforgivable choices

Dec 21, 2025 • Nick Carson

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Sayings in old age

By John Simmons

Dec 10, 2025

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In other news this year…

Mervyn died — bit of a shame, really...

Dec 3, 2025 • Margaret Kenna

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November 2025

Too Soon

They leave out shameful causes of deaths from obituaries.

Nov 24, 2025 • Regina G Beach

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Requiem for a death

"Grief" as a word has become almost meaningless, and "anniversary" is a terrible word for observing the day someone died. Maybe there's solace in…

Published on Painting With Lightning • Nov 16, 2025

September 2025

Seasonal Transitions: The Change Artist

Choreographing beautiful deaths to bargain with mortality

Sep 20, 2025 • Nick Carson

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Gritty Business

Ashes to ashes... Something long put off is finally done, with laughter and tears.

Sep 16, 2025

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June 2025

Seasonal Transitions: The Fever Collector

Regulating acceptable grief levels in the face of death

Jun 21, 2025 • Nick Carson

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Death is Not a Door. It’s a Conversation.

Lilith had spent her life preparing for this. And yet, as the moment arrived, something inside her resisted...

Jun 14, 2025 • Lilith + Eve

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A Espera

(The Waiting)

Jun 7, 2025 • Julia Webb-Harvey

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May 2025

Paddy Field Memorials, Vietnam

The power of memories, individual and national, true and false. By Stephen Barnaby

May 28, 2025 • Stephen Barnaby

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