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.

Transgressing the boundaries of the living and dying on a daily basis, Alison Milne and Michael Schooley travel hundreds of miles around Maine to offer hospice care. Rachel James documents the work that Milne and Schooley do as hospice caretakers and having to make their own boundaries less permeable.

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.

Nicholas Tanner captures the dying sport of pigeon racing.

Briget Ganske documents the work that Erin Forbes does a Master Beekeeper, and how bees have been dying in large numbers.

In Kittery, Freddie Cooper practices the dying art of spinning pewter. Janice Coyne visits Cooper to learn about his craft of metal spinning.

In Kittery, Freddie Cooper practices the dying art of spinning pewter. Julien LeSieur and Janice Coyne visit Cooper to learn about his craft of metal spinning.

Finding an old computer in his new apartment, Peter Lang-Stanton discovered a string of emails about a woman's dying friend. Lang-Stanton recounts his investigation to find the women who sent the emails and what happened to her friend, all while dealing with personal family concerns.

Emily Renard discusses how as small farms are dying out in Machias, the Machias Valley Grange Hall has begun to fall to disrepair, refusing to let it be torn down. Renard discusses a group of artists and activists, the Beehive Design Collective, who bought the Machias Valley Grange Hall, fixed it, and gave it back to the community to use.

On Beals Island, while most jobs are centered around lobstering, boat building, trap building, and seafood distribution, the fishing community is dying away as more tourists replace the native island population. Elizabeth Massa captures how the changes on Beals Island could force lifelong residents to leave to find new work.

On Beals Island, while most jobs are centered around lobstering, boat building, trap building, and seafood distribution, the fishing community is dying away as more tourists replace the native island population. Benjamin Brady explores how the changes on Beals Island could force lifelong residents to leave to find new work, and speaks to Cole Beal, who's family has lived on Beal's Island since 1775.