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Our research project, Dying In The Margins, was established in 2019 to better understand the experiences of people dying at home in circumstances of financial hardship and deprivation. Perhaps surprisingly, it is still not widely understood that the age we die at, what we die from, and the way we die are largely determined by our socioeconomic circumstances over the course of our lives.
It is not history’s job to impose lessons on the present. But at the same time, it would be inadequate for viewers not to ask what we would have done in Bill’s place. And, more uncomfortably, what, faced with the knowledge of the multiple injustices of our own society, we ourselves are doing now. Above: Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These.
To protect our descendants from catastrophe, we must overcome the emotional hurdles that make it easy for us to look away
In September, a federal judge finally approved a $600 million settlement for East Palestine, Ohio, residents after a devastating train derailment. Yet twenty months after the disaster in East Palestine and a decade since the Toledo water crisis, residents throughout the state continue to endure systemic neglect and harbor lingering distrust toward the state and federal government, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
For his dedication to promoting young people’s mental well-being and developing the next generation of mental health care providers, The Door and Broome Street Academy presented NYU Silver Dean Michael A. Lindsey with the Founders Award at their 2024 Fall Benefit.