by moderator | Jun 10, 2021 | Articles and more
Our friend Yuli Somme from Bellacouche has sent this beautiful piece I remember years ago my daughter cradling her dead hamster, trying to comprehend the why and what of it all. Five years after the death of my lovely Labracollie, Flo, I still miss the soft...
by moderator | Jun 2, 2021 | News
We have created a Facebook Group for Borrowed Time. If you want to join in on the conversation before (and after) the event, join the group. We’ll also be sending out invitations to everyone who has registered for Borrowed Time.
by moderator | May 25, 2021 | Articles and more
Thanks to Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson for sharing these words from Iris Murdoch: “Goodness is connected with the acceptance of real death and real chance and real transience and only against the background of this acceptance, which is so psychologically...
by moderator | May 25, 2021 | Articles and more
There was once a tradition in Hookland of sextons and gravediggers wearing special ear plugs to prevent the dead whispering to them as they worked the churchyard. Few gravediggers today admit to keeping the practice, though those of Walmington are an exception....
by moderator | Apr 26, 2021 | Events, Featured, Main Programme, Past events
Wednesday June 23 at 13.00 BST (UTC+1) Watch the video below, or on vimeo ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy...
by moderator | Mar 22, 2021 | Articles and more
Sophie Pierce is in conversation with art.earth’s Richard Povall on Friday April 9. She will be talking about her son Felix and the memoir she is publishing. Sophie talks about all this in this week’s Observer: It’s 9 March 2017. I am sitting in an ambulance, holding...
by moderator | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles and more
Call for Papers for The 15th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and DisposalIn increasingly fractured and confusing times, this conference seeks to locate death as the one intersection that truly touches us all.We are now seeking papers and...
by moderator | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles and more
Portuguese lawmakers have voted in support of legal assisted dying for the incurably suffering, making a change in the law one step closer to reality. My Death, My Decision has welcomed the move as a historic step forward in the predominantly Catholic country, and...
by moderator | Mar 18, 2021 | Articles and more
Avril Henry lived a fulfilling life, but as age took hold and her body failed, it was one she no longer believed was worth living. Why did the law stand in her way? a story in The Guardian by by Katie Engelhart In the late morning, on the day she planned to die, in...
by moderator | Mar 17, 2021 | Uncategorised
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