Ask Mommy: How Do I Cope With Death?
I don't have any advice on coping with death, but here are some thoughts on it.
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8 Ways To Leave This World As An Atheist
Here are eight ways you can honour your secular views in death:

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New Video: Are Atheists Afraid of Death?
Do you think there is a specifically “atheist” way of looking at death? Are you afraid of death or dying?
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Why Religion Needs To Be Destroyed
My reaction to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.
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Oh, Captain… Goodbye Mr. Williams
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, and martyrs have an
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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Say Goodbye
I swear that I had a week’s worth of funny, goofy posts for you this week, but then bullshit 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 to 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.I met her in a crappy bar, on a rainy nigh
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