Lengthening life has become big business for the wellness industry, with consumers being sold the idea they can delay death – if they are willing to pay for it.
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Just as we prepare wills for our physical possessions, we need to plan for our digital remains.
Not all of us get to grieve a stable and warm relationship. We may feel complicated emotions beyond sadness.
You don’t need to have met someone to grieve for them. But when a pope dies, how do we tell the difference between grief and the longing for meaning?
Planning ahead allows families to mourn, rather than scramble.
Unhoused people are more likely to die in hospitals or on the streets.
Death data in the US is fragmented, incomplete and inconsistent. The consequences of undercounted deaths and lack of real-time tracking continue to be felt with each new public health crisis.
COVID-19 highlighted the need to plan for medical emergencies, but most people still avoid the issue.
Among the big names investing big bucks to prolong their lives are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, and Oracle’s Larry Ellison.
How does one write the essence of a life once it has come to an end?Mark Raphael Baker’s A Season of Death is an intimate, at times harrowing, portrait of grief.
Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the notion of a digital afterlife into overdrive.
Fan communities coping with a celebrity loss do several things that help their members feel supported and connected.
A massive search got underway when Holt did not resurface in choppy waters. His disappearance ruptured the country, and has fascinated it ever since.
A clinical psychologist offers research-backed ways to work through grief and support grieving friends and family members during the holidays.
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
Philosopher Susana Monsó talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how animals understand death.
While long COVID may not be immediately or directly life-threatening, it could exacerbate existing conditions.
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
The distress experienced by people near death is not limited to pain caused by illness or disease. Our research sheds light on the economic and political reasons dying is much harder for some.
Horror movies allow us to confront our deepest fears through the safety of make-believe.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Distinguished Professor, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor Emeritus of Death Studies, University of Bath
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Professor, Social Work, University of Waterloo
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Wake Forest University
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Professor of Social Work, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of Property Law and Death Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of York
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Sociology, University of Bath
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Reader of Health Psychology, Queen's University Belfast