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Love and friendship
A decade after his wife was swept away in a tsunami, Yasuo still searches the sea
9 minutes
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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
4 minutes
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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
9 minutes
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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
5 minutes
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Ageing and death
How an end-of-life doula found her vocation as a companion for the dying
7 minutes
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Life stages
Love evolves and death isn’t worth your worry – life lessons from an 88-year-old
7 minutes
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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
11 minutes
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Illness and disease
As dementia trims the tree of knowledge in John’s brain, music holds firm
12 minutes
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Teaching and learning
A retired teacher embarks on a mission to find out what became of a beloved student
16 minutes
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Meaning and the good life
What a ‘good death’ can look like, in the quiet company of a compassionate stranger
18 minutes
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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?
8 minutes
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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
13 minutes
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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
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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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Death
Death is no leveller if some live much longer than others
Keith Frankish