Maggie Jones

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to — and spending time with — the bodies of their deceased.

Overwhelmed by bodies, funeral homes are struggling to fulfill their mission to grieving families.

When she was 17, she leapt into a segregated Florida swimming pool — and landed on the front page.

Hannah Drake’s (Un)Known Project in Louisville is both a memorial to enslaved people whose stories will never be uncovered, and a challenge to unearth narratives hidden in attics and archives.

A radical lesbian feminist, she helped build a haven without men in the California redwoods.

Voice mail helps a daughter cope with her mother’s death.

It’s a dark time for therapists treating adolescents in despair. But some things do work.

Sex can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives.

Donald Triplett was the first child diagnosed with autism, changing the way we understand difference.

You know so much more about yourself and your desires when you’re older that dating apps — even with all their frustrations — can bring unanticipated pleasure.