If an astronaut were to die on Mars, neither cremation nor burial would be good options.
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Grief is a natural response to loss, but if it significantly affects your ability to function, it may be time to seek professional help.
Finding a supportive doctor willing and qualified to assess your eligibility for voluntary assisted dying sometimes depends on luck.
The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
Similar techniques used to identify criminals have been employed to unmask anonymous authors. But they aren’t foolproof.
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed.
End-of-life storytelling is the process of telling stories and documenting death and dying – and many people find it confronting on a medium like TikTok.
Think about what story it is you want to tell about your loved one, how you want it to end and what you want your audience to take home.
The three Roy children had a love-hate relationship with their father so losing him has thrown up some difficult feelings they may feel they have to ignore.
The media attention, public backlash and judgement of the dead in the cult saga have made processing the loss difficult for families.
As television has become more nuanced, death depicted in fictional programs has begun to replicate the complexity of ‘real’ loss in our lives.
Even in death, a tree helps others live.
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to civilian death and displacement. Twenty years later, Iraqis are telling their stories of conflict and trauma as they move towards healing.
On at Cape Town Pride, Melanie Chait’s documentary is about her life partner Nancy Diuguid.
Death is a process, not an event and some steps appear to be reversible.
Since 2016, Canada’s practice of offering MAID has followed a trajectory of ever-expanding eligibility. The ultimate expansion would make MAID available to anyone who wanted it, for any reason.
From Bali to China, Italy to India, the way people grieve varies greatly across the world.
A romance writer’s bizarre fake death has gone viral. That her being alive stayed undetected for 2.5 years reminds us that our online and published personas are still separate from real life.
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