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Death and dying

July 2024

  • Woman holding hand of someone in hospital.

    The rural network
    Don’t fight with your siblings about inheritance, and 12 other tips for coping with the death of your parents

    Emily Thompson
    I was inducted young into the dead parents’ club. It’s a club no one wants to join – but here’s some advice for new members
  • Lisa Wright leaning against a tree looking pensive

    Self and wellbeing
    I was alone in my grief when my parents died – but missing them gave me the answer

    As an only child, when my mum and dad both died within three months of each other, the walls of my reality crumbled – suddenly, I was an adult orphan
  • Brendan O’Shea.

    Treasure hunters: the enthralling, emotional inside story of a house clearance

    They never know what they will find – from fleas to Picassos to Soviet missiles beneath the stairs. But what they do is crucial and cathartic

June 2024

  • One of the 170 blocks that make up the Tokiwadaira housing estate near Tokyo.

    Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

  • The ‘knife-edge’ business of digital recreation in Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – thought-provoking look at new AI product for the grieving

  • Eternal You.

    Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

  • Assisted dying campaigners protest outside parliament in Westminster

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    The principle of assisted dying – and the practice

  • My dad has died but his watch ticks on. Why does that feel so heartless?

    Adrian Chiles

  • Consumer champions
    My husband died, and now I can’t access our savings or sell our house

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘We wouldn’t let animals die in misery. Why should humans?’: Susan Hampshire on why dying must be a choice

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘After I spoke publicly about it, one woman told me I was in a death cult’: Jonathan Dimbleby on assisted dying

  • Self and wellbeing
    When our young son died, we decided to build him a boat

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘The flight to Zurich sounds like the worst mini-break possible’: Julian Barnes on why Britain must legalise assisted dying

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘While I am healthy now, I’d like to have a little lethal concoction waiting for the right moment’: Prue Leith on the right to die

  • The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘I will probably not be given the chance to die in my favourite place’: Esther Rantzen on the right to choose a good death

  • It’s your funeral! How to plan ahead for the best party you’ll never attend

  • Wildfire smoke prematurely killed over 50,000 Californians in a decade – study

  • Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    My daughter took her own life, and I can’t face talking to anyone about it

  • My best shot
    A celebration of a child who never got to be born – Jair F Coll’s best photograph

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