Online Suicide Kits, Last Lighthouse Keeper in America, Bonefishing Off Bimini with Bobby Knight
PLUS: Thomas Hardy, Schubert, Etymology.
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Luc Rinaldi | Toronto Life | October 31, 2023
A detailed investigation into the ease of buying a โsuicide kitโ online and the forums that peddle them. Luc Rinaldi focuses on the case study of Kenneth Lawโwho built his business during the pandemicโand the people who have used his kits to die.
In a technological age, impassioned devotees renew an ancient maritime tradition.
Dorothy Wickenden | New Yorker | October 30, 2023
For the greater part of two decades, Sally Snowman has lived and worked contentedly on Little Brewster Island, a craggy patch of bare rock, crabgrass, concrete, and dilapidated buildings in Bostonโs outer harbor. Under the auspices of the Coast Guard, she serves as the keeper, and the historian, of Boston Light. The lighthouse, opened in September 1716, was the first in the American colonies, and Snowman is the last official keeper in the United States. (The United States currently has about 850 lighthouses, but only half are active, and these use automated eclectic lamps.)
Kevin Koenig | GQ Magazine | November 7, 2023
A profile from 2015, reintroduced and re-published this week after Coach Knightโs death.
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