This blog about end-of-life issues enables us to track here other things that come to an end, such as technology items and lifestyles.
In today's Spokesman-Review, I wrote about the end of the train hobo lifestyle. People don't ride the rails anymore. Why? Railcars are no longer “rider-friendly” and railroads have cracked down on trespassing.
The train hobo culture was always more glamorous in books and movies than in reality, but it's still difficult to believe it's gone for good.
(S-R photo by Chris Anderson. Note the modern train cars — nowhere to grab onto or sit upon.)
Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with Catherine Johnston, an Olympia, Wash., writer who works in hospital administration, write about issues of grief when facing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.
Ask a question: Rebecca and Catherine answer grief questions in their syndicated EndNotes column for McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Email them at endnotescolumn@gmail.com.
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