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Psychology

Essays and videos offering insights into the self, relationships, cognition and neuroscience
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Mood and emotion

When grief doesn’t end

Suffering the sudden death of a loved person leaves some survivors stuck in grief. Can they win their lives back – and how?

Martin W Angler

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Death

Toby ponders the inner lives of the sheep that roam atop his parents’ graves

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Love and friendship

A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea

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Ageing and death

When his elderly parents make a suicide pact, Doron struggles to accept their choice

19 minutes

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Ageing and death

‘It’s not beautiful, but it’s interesting’ – an ageing nude model surveys her body

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Art

A massive art installation attempts to put the COVID-19 deaths in perspective

15 minutes

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Ageing and death

Death is a trip – how new research links near-death and DMT experiences

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Ageing and death

Old not Other

Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer

Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks

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Stories and literature

A musician and a storyteller collaborate in a daily duet of words and music

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Ageing and death

How an end-of-life doula found her vocation as a companion for the dying

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Life stages

Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old

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Ageing and death

The gender of dementia

Are women really at greater risk from dementia? Until we reckon with social roles and inequalities, it’s impossible to say

Kate Gregorevic

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Animals and humans

The joys and heartbreaks of loving a creature who ages faster than you

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Illness and disease

As dementia trims the tree of knowledge in John’s brain, music holds firm

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Teaching and learning

A retired teacher embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student

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Meaning and the good life

What a ‘good death’ can look like, in the quiet company of a compassionate stranger

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Meaning and the good life

Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life

Dorian Rolston

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Animals and humans

How does Norman, a 16-year-old Shih Tzu, see the pet cloning dilemma?

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Ageing and death

The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care

Muireann Irish

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Ageing and death

Why older people should be allowed to change their legal age

Joona Räsänen

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Ageing and death

‘Old age is a ceremony of losses’: the late poet Donald Hall on a life lived long

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Family life

‘You wanna get rid of me?’ When the time comes to move mom into assisted living

19 minutes

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Consciousness and altered states

Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences

Christian Jarrett

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Evolution

Why hasn’t evolution dealt with the inefficiency of ageing?

Jordan Pennells