Philosophy
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Animals and humans
Goodbye Pixel
Although it felt more like bereavement for a person than the loss of a thing, the death of a pet isn’t exactly like either
Julian Baggini
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Ageing and death
When his elderly parents make a suicide pact, Doron struggles to accept their choice
19 minutes
video
Rituals and celebrations
In a Mongolian wind burial, a body falls on land before getting swept up to the heavens
6 minutes
video
Values and beliefs
A funeral director takes in bodies that social stigma leaves unclaimed
11 minutes
video
Ageing and death
How an end-of-life doula found her vocation as a companion for the dying
7 minutes
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Death
Is grandad on the moon?
We no longer have a clear sense of how to introduce our children to death. But their questions can help us face up to it
Pragya Agarwal
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Meaning and the good life
Final thoughts
Do deathbed regrets give us a special insight into what really matters in life? There are good reasons to be sceptical
Neil Levy
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Mood and emotion
Grieving Kobe Bryant, Conor wonders: why do untimely celebrity deaths hit so hard?
6 minutes
idea
Meaning and the good life
Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?
Warren Ward
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Meaning and the good life
Marcus Aurelius helped me survive grief and rebuild my life
Jamie Lombardi
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Death
This mortal coil
The fear of death drives many evils, from addiction to prejudice and war. Can it also be harnessed as a force for good?
Jeff Greenberg
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
It’s complicated – why some grief takes much longer to heal
Marie Lundorff
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Rituals and celebrations
Death by design
We can choose how we live – why not how we leave? A free society should allow dying to be more deliberate and imaginative
Daniel Callcut
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Meaning and the good life
Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death
Alison Stone
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Animals and humans
‘When it comes to the end, we all want the same things.’ Why animals need a good death
15 minutes
video
Death
‘Where is it that we are?’ A poet conjures a journey along the waters of the afterlife
4 minutes
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War and peace
What motivated three young Britons to join the deadly fight against ISIS in Syria?
29 minutes
essay
Death
The need for an ending
When a person goes missing, in war or in ordinary life, their story is cut off mid-sentence. A death can be easier to bear
Andy Owen
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Rituals and celebrations
To Tibetan Buddhists, sky burials are sacred. To tourists, they’re a morbid curiosity
21 minutes
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Death
An ageing philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’
18 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
The telling
When a parent dies by suicide, how the children are told casts a permanent shadow on their understanding of life and loss
Jesse Bering
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Values and beliefs
Economics helps explain why suicide is more common among Protestants
Sascha O Becker & Ludger Woessmann
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Death
Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
Keith Frankish
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Family life
The psychic, the skeptic and the life-and-death prophecy that came true
5 minutes