Death Be Not Decaffeinated: Over Cup, Groups Face Taboo
Socrates did not fear death; he calmly drank the hemlock. Kierkegaard was obsessed with death, which made him a bit gloomy. As for Lorraine Tosiello, a 58-year-old internist in Bradley Beach, N.J., it is the process of dying that seems endlessly ...

Jason Leffler's girlfriend says driver had insurance
Jason Leffler's girlfriend says he had a plan in place to care ... Leffler funeral is Wednesday That was evident long before Leffler's death in an accident at a dirt track in New Jersey last Wednesday. The 37-year-old divorced father's Twitter ...

Mandela’s Absence Is Felt, if Not Addressed
QUNU, South Africa — At the Methodist church here in Nelson Mandela’s home village — a scatter of brightly painted houses amid rolling hills — the ladies’ choir held its weekly practice, sending strains of gospel melodies into the ...

Body Glove co-founder Bob Meistrell dies on boat during Catalina paddleboard race
Meistrell, a surfing and diving legend who started making insulated wet suits decades ago with his identical ... In addition to his son Robbie, Meistrell is survived by his wife of 63 years, Patty; two other sons, Ronnie and Randy; nine ...

Second City co-founder Bernard Sahlins dies at 90
Throughout much of the 1970s and into the 1980s, Second City’s popularity rose and with it ticket sales, but by 1985 Mr. Sahlins had had enough and sold his interest to Alexander for millions. “I was losing contact with the work,” he said in 2008 ...

Darien area family slain in murder-suicide mourned
Dozens of tearful friends and relatives poured into a Lemont funeral home today to mourn the four members of a family slain last week in a murder-suicide. Visitors sobbed and consoled each other with hugs as they paid their respects to David and ...