Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.” Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Death and Dying”
She Preached Death Without Fear. Could She Practice It?
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2022
Shatzi Weisberger spent years urging others to approach the process of dying with joy and wonder. Then she got cancer. Source: New York Times
The Life and Death of Daniel Auster, a Son of Literary Brooklyn
By Gotham Rex on July 27, 2022
Memorably depicted in his father’s books, he struggled with drug addiction through a life that put him close to a notorious murder and came to an end in a family tragedy. Source: New York Times
Notes From the End of a Very Long Life by New York's Oldest
By Gotham Rex on January 6, 2022
With the death of Ruth Willig at 98, a Times series on a set of the oldest New Yorkers — chronicled over seven years in 21 articles — offers their lessons on living with loss. Source: New York Times
Without Barry the Central Park Owl, What Will We Do?
By Gotham Rex on August 12, 2021
A community formed in Central Park around a barred owl with a charming, people-friendly personality. Saying goodbye isn’t easy. Source: New York Times
Behind Closed Doors, ‘the Difficulty and the Beauty’ of Pandemic Hospice Work
By Gotham Rex on March 29, 2021
“I did not really understand when people would ask, ‘Why me and why my family?’” a hospice chaplain said. “Now I was asking the same questions.” Source: New York Times
How One Shoreline Took the Lives of 7 Young People
By Gotham Rex on June 26, 2020
“Do you see my friends?” A year of tragedy along a strip of New York City beaches. Source: New York Times