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Merryn Gott Being at home, in our own bed, surrounded by loved ones, is an image that dominates popular understandings of [...]

Mary Ellen MacDonald Come autumn, I spend a lot of time thinking about ghosts. The fall marks a number of deathiversaries for [...]

Solveiga Zibaite During my recent personal explorations on what’s new in the gaming world, I came across something strangely relevant to [...]

Naomi Richards When I submitted my first article to an international ageing journal (Richards 2012), I was genuinely perplexed to receive [...]

Helle Timm A national survey conducted with my colleagues reveals that the Danes more or less know (statistically) what they can [...]

Lars Johan Materstvedt In her book Ending Life. Ethics and the Way We Die (2005), philosopher Margaret P. Battin tells the [...]

Jacqueline Kandsberger Advance care planning (or ACP) is a conversation-based process of preparing for the complex decisions that have to be [...]

Marian Krawczyk Imagine yourself in the following scenario. You’ve been living, possibly for years, with the advancing symptoms of a serious [...]

Devi Vijay In 2005, a team of volunteers and nurses from a community organization in north Kerala (India) went door-to-door to [...]

Antje Wiener Since the Brexit referendum, the many contestations about each step towards realising the UK’s exit from the EU have [...]