{"id":67576,"date":"2014-03-06T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=67576"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:13:45","slug":"death-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/death-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Death, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67577\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/frederik-ruysch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67577\" class=\" wp-image-67577\" alt=\"frederik ruysch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/frederik-ruysch-1024x754.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A depiction of one of Frederik Ruysch\u2019s anatomical displays. Image via the Public Domain Review.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of <i>How We Die<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/05\/us\/sherwin-b-nuland-author-who-challenged-concept-of-dignified-death-dies-at-83.html\" target=\"_blank\">is dead<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In Los Angeles, a group of ghost hunters are chasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/3\/5\/5341504\/the-end-of-the-hunt-rise-and-fall-of-las-ghost-chasers\" target=\"_blank\">the dead<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The punk ethos of the Lower East Side <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/hazlitt\/feature\/hardcore-oysters-lower-east-side\" target=\"_blank\">is dead<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch died in 1731, but his deathly sketches still haunt us today: \u201cnot only did he exalt the human anatomy as a wondrous product of creation, but he presented himself as a veritable artist <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2014\/03\/05\/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death\/#sthash.4MPscQfB.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">of death<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On the eastern seaboard, the hemlock is dying out. Though the tree bears only a superficial resemblance to the plant that killed Socrates, \u201cit seems impossible to separate the hemlock tree from the hemlock plant\u2019s poison, for a poet to keep the death of Socrates out of the picture\u2014for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orionmagazine.org\/index.php\/articles\/article\/8047\" target=\"_blank\">death is in the forest<\/a>, especially a hemlock forest, especially now.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of How We Die, is dead. In Los Angeles, a group of ghost hunters are chasing the dead. The punk ethos of the Lower East Side is dead. The Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch died in 1731, but his deathly sketches still haunt us today: \u201cnot only did he exalt the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[2186,13087,13086,13088,217,13085,11693],"class_list":["post-67576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-death","tag-frederik-ruysch","tag-ghost-hunters","tag-hemlock","tag-los-angeles","tag-sherwin-b-nuland","tag-socrates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning News Roundup for March 6, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 6, 2014 \u2013 Sherwin B. Nuland, the author of How We Die, is dead. 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