Mara Buchbinder

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Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (University Of California Press, May 2021).

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CRIMEA, RUSSIA - AUGUST 22, 2020: A view of Lake Sasyk during the 2020 Crimean Fashion Week. Sergei Malgavko/TASS (Photo by Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)

'The Bitter Comes With The Sweet': Without Death, There Is No Life

Mara Buchbinder, a medical anthropologist, writes about death, and our lack of control over its inevitability. She's been thinking about her own mortality recently, after reading Natalie Babbitt’s "Tuck Everlasting,”...

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Feb 5, 2021