I don't have any advice on coping with death, but here are some thoughts on it.

Here are eight ways you can honour your secular views in death:

Do you think there is a specifically “atheist” way of looking at death? Are you afraid of death or dying?

My goodbye to my grandmother.

My reaction to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.

You wanna know what? It’s okay to grieve over a celebrity. It is perfectly acceptable. It doesn’t make you simple or silly or sappy. It makes you a human being. When a recognizable face passes, choruses of heartless loners pipe up and ask why we mourn these celebrity deaths and not the thousands of people who die every day. I’ll tell you why. All the world has a fear of death, no matter what they say. No one looks death in the face and says, “fuck yeah!”. Even suicide bombers

I swear that I had a week’s worth of funny, goofy posts for you this week, but then rapegate 2014 happened and then this morning I awoke to some awful news that an old friend had been killed in a freak accident. While I had never been particularly close with her, many of my friends were and are suffering a great deal right now. It brought back memories of losing my own close friend back in 2007 and since writing is my therapy, I thought I’d just get it all out. This story is