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My Money is running out and I’m ashamed of being a burden to my kids NEXT AVENUE This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. My widowed mother was left with debts and a bare bank account. So, she married an older man she thought wealthy. “I don’t want to be a burden to my kids,” Read More…
My soon-to-be ex-husband placed his money in a trust before we married, and used it to buy properties. Am I entitled to any of these?© Provided by MarketWatch THE MONEYIST Dear Moneyist, My spouse created a revocable trust two months before our marriage without my knowledge. He placed all of his money in the trust fund. Read More…
By KATHRYN POST (RNS) — When Black Americans leave religion, it’s rarely a clean break. Take Rogiérs Fibby, a self-described agnostic, atheist and secular humanist who grew up in the Moravian Church. The head of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the Black Secular Collective, Fibby also considers himself “culturally Christian.” “I know all the lingo, the Read More…
Written by Elliott Smith An animal skitters through the heavy underbrush of the Colombian forest in the dark of night. Hidden deep in the brush is a camera trap that quickly snaps a picture. An AI tool called MegaDetector identifies and classifies the results, streamlining a process that used to take days into minutes. The Read More…
by Inori Roy As the city runs out of burial space, a series of boardroom and legal battles in the booming bereavement industry could determine the future of death in Toronto. In a corner of the basement of the Humphrey Funeral Home—a red-brick building with white columns in a wealthy North Toronto neighbourhood—is a nondescript Read More…
How did a cemetery group amass $1.2 billion in assets—and so much power? by Inori Roy This story was originally published as “Death and the Salesmen” by our friends at The Local. It has been reprinted here with permission. In a corner of the basement of the Humphrey Funeral Home—a red-brick building with white columns Read More…
This article was published over a year ago. Some information may no longer be current. For much of my life, I thought the line between alive and dead was irrefutable. During the ten years I worked as a paramedic in the Toronto area, I saw the body as simple: oxygen flowed into lungs, was absorbed Read More…
Why an increasing number of young people are writing their wills and arranging their funerals by Sam Juric Morgan Harrietha was sixteen when she gathered around the kitchen table with her brother and father to plan for the one thing in life she knew would happen: her death. Three years before, Harrietha’s mother had come Read More…
by Bardia Sinaee Generative AI is mechanizing writing itself. Is poetry far behind? In November 2022, OpenAI released a free research preview of ChatGPT, a large language model that identifies patterns in a vast collection of data to teach itself how to generate human-like responses to user prompts—a prediction machine for language. The prediction power Read More…
Machines are putting out astonishingly human writing. What does that mean for the future of art? by Carmine Starnino Illustration by Celina Gallardo This story was originally published as “Poetry & digital personhood” by our friends at The New Criterion. It has been reprinted here with permission. When a book of brazenly surrealistic poetry and Read More…
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