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Articles on Death
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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.
How Prince Harry using a psychic to contact his dead mother, Princess Diana, isn’t that unusual.
Children and the adults they become need to choose how they grieve. That may include sharing their experiences and getting angry.
Forget the tech tycoons’ pursuit of immortality: a life without limit can produce only a stagnant pond.
A bear eats a teenager, and inherits his memories. An ageing woman writer buys a tower of her own – where she reimagines the crone from Rapunzel. Two inventive new books resonate with our reviewer.
The death of a pet can be a deeply painful experience. But acknowledging the way pet grief is different can help people find consolation.
The oldest person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April 2022 at 119 years. The record of Jeanne Calment of France, who died at 122, has stood for almost 25 years. Will it be beaten?
When someone dies young, the grieving process can be more complicated.
Views on death and the afterlife vary from person to person and culture to culture. This course gives US Air Force cadets a broad perspective on mortality and its effects on people and society.
Research shows people can undergo transformational experiences when they grieve.
In the 19th century, ‘old age’ was once a leading cause of death, alongside the vague description ‘found dead’.
The death of the Queen may turn people’s minds to the loss of their own grandparents, or how the younger royals will cope.
Grieving the queen’s passing can be different to grieving the loss of someone we were close to. It’s also complicated by politics, colonialism and the contest about who she really was.
Society has very different attitudes to near-death experiences and psychedelics.
As we reflect on what life means to us in this post-pandemic shuffle, we need to also contemplate what a “good death” is.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Fatal road injuries are among the top 10 causes of death in Ghana.
An expert on grief says give people space and time to come to terms with loss and don’t expect them to need – or want – ‘closure.’
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University
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Professor Emeritus of Death Studies, University of Bath
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, Music Industry, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, University of New England
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Reader in Education with Psychology and Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, Criminology, University of York
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Professor of Property Law and Death Studies, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor, Social Work, University of Waterloo
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Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde
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Lecturer, Media and Communications program, The University of Melbourne
