Your Heart, the Moon, and the Road Back Again

Your heart beats about 72 times each minute. Without asking for attention, without praise, it just… continues. Through joy, grief, stillness, and chaos. Quietly, it does its work. Over a lifetime, your heart will generate more than 15,000 megajoules of energy. That’s enough to drive a truck to the Moon—and back.* It’s a striking comparison. […]

What Does Choice Look Like? A Global Glimpse at Assisted Dying

multiple doorways and choices

When we think about death, we don’t often think about choice. We think about loss. Fear. Timing we can’t control. But across the world, people are quietly asking a deeper question: What does it mean to have agency at the end of life? What does it look like to die with intention, not just inevitability? […]