Merryn Gott Being at home, in our own bed, surrounded by loved ones, is an image that dominates [...]
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Why should the bereaved give up their ghosts?
Mary Ellen MacDonald Come autumn, I spend a lot of time thinking about ghosts. The fall marks a number [...]
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Negotiating death positivity in video games: overcoming the addiction to respawning
Solveiga Zibaite During my recent personal explorations on what’s new in the gaming world, I came across something [...]
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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 [...]
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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) [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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) [...]
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The Impossibility of Disentangling Integration
Antje Wiener Since the Brexit referendum, the many contestations about each step towards realising the UK’s exit from [...]
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