She sits on a bench carved with names—“Jenna + Christo 4eva”—by the entrance to the sanctuary and pulls her shoes back on.

A woman asked, hesitantly: “Is he the one who … self-immolated?”

the room past mine

They had dozens of names for different types of corpses—“crispy critters,” “stinkers,” “floaters,” “dunkers,” and “Headless Horsemen,” just to name a few. Butch Farabee, national emergency services coordinator for the National Park ..