You can now subscribe to our newsletter to enjoy personalized deathpulse updates delivered to your inbox!
Looking to doomscroll? Check out all the death that came in 2025.
Meena Alexander
Poet, scholar, and writer (1951-2018).
Born February 17th, 1951 in Prayagraj. [ref]
Died November 21st, 2018 at 67 years old in Manhattan (endometrial cancer). [ref]
Occupations
novelist, poet, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia
Subscribe!
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche