Solveiga Zibaite During my recent personal explorations on what’s new in the gaming world, I came across something strangely relevant to [...]
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Ageing and Dying are a Continuum
Naomi Richards When I submitted my first article to an international ageing journal (Richards 2012), I was genuinely perplexed to receive [...]
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It seems people don’t fear death, as much as they fear the process of dying
Helle Timm A national survey conducted with my colleagues reveals that the Danes more or less know (statistically) what they can [...]
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“Assisted dying” – what it is, where it’s practised, and what the future might hold
Lars Johan Materstvedt In her book Ending Life. Ethics and the Way We Die (2005), philosopher Margaret P. Battin tells the [...]
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Advance care planning and societal ownership of death and dying
Jacqueline Kandsberger Advance care planning (or ACP) is a conversation-based process of preparing for the complex decisions that have to be [...]
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Dying in a hospital setting: it’s complicated
Marian Krawczyk Imagine yourself in the following scenario. You’ve been living, possibly for years, with the advancing symptoms of a serious [...]
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Being mortal: Beyond the great doctors, and what matters in the end
Devi Vijay In 2005, a team of volunteers and nurses from a community organization in north Kerala (India) went door-to-door to [...]
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FOCUS: The Groundhog Opens an Eye – Brexit, 18 months and counting
William Outhwaite This special issue of Discover Society, curated by William Outhwaite, welcomes the new year of Brexit negotiations with views [...]
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Viewpoint: Good-bye to all That
Andreas Hess Allegedly Mussolini made Italian trains run on time. It’s not hard to see some parallels here with the Brexiteers’ [...]
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On the Frontline: Brexit as bereavement
Verena K. Brändle, Charlotte Galpin, Hans-Jörg Trenz Since the referendum in June 2016, a new phenomenon of bottom-up, self-organized pro-EU mobilisation [...]
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