COVID-19 has brought death closer than ever- but social distancing rules keeps loved ones apart during their final moments. Elissa Mardiney talks to death experts about how the pandemic is changing dying, and how thinking about death can change the way we live. Please Note: This piece discusses death and contains some profanity.

COVID-19 has brought death closer than ever- but social distancing rules keeps loved ones apart during their final moments. Elissa Mardiney talks to death experts about how the pandemic is changing dying, and how thinking about death can change the way we live. Please Note: This piece discusses death and contains some profanity.

The online community has evolved from crowdfunding artistic projects and philanthropic necessities to a third category that sits somewhere in between funding your friend's cool indie album and a round of life-saving chemo for a child. Jessica Melcher and her husband joined a growing trend when they began accepting online donations for a costly in vitro fertilization pregnancy.

COVID-19 has brought death closer than ever- but social distancing rules keeps loved ones apart during their final moments. Elissa Mardiney talks to death experts about how the pandemic is changing dying, and how thinking about death can change the way we live. Please Note: This piece discusses death and contains some profanity.

Mary Weaver Dutch's participation in her newest hobby of curling was cut short by a debilitating illness. 25 years after her diagnosis, she was given a chance to play again at a caliber greater than ever before. This is her story.

Stories teach kids about the world. But sometimes, the world can be a scary place. Producer Nicki Stein revisits a story in a kids’ book of folklore that lingered with her long past childhood. Music by the Ar-Kaics, courtesy of Daptone Records NOTE: This piece deals with the concept of death and contains swearing, so it may not be suitable for young listeners

This is a story about a scarf. It belongs to Eugenia Opuda, a librarian and artist based in Portland, Maine. Her mother started knitting the scarf for her, but passed away before she was able to finish it. She found the scarf when she was going through her mother’s house, and put it in her closet – where it has remained unfinished for nearly ten years. But this year, Eugenia feels she might be ready to change that.

Heather Flor is a Peruvian-American farmer and artist who uses rest as a radical tool. Heather’s mother, María Rosita, and her four-year old nephew, Ediercito, do too.

Having been told that she would need a cesarean section to deliver her child, one Somali woman declined the procedure at Mercy Hospital in Portland. Olga Kreimer explores how childbirth is seen from a different culture and how this interacts with a woman's legal right to refuse life-saving measures in the state of Maine.

Annie Tselikis captures a photograph of a woman dancing at the sock hop.

Worth Stokes documents the routines of a woman works as a caretaker.