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Death and dying

May 2024

  • Zoraya ter Beek sitting on a sofa in her home.

    Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering

  • A doctor holding the hand of a female patient lying in a hospital bed

    When doctors withhold futile treatments, that isn’t ‘assisted dying’

  • The memorial garden at Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh that includes plaques inscribed with the names of 149 babies.

    Brief letters
    A place to remember the babies who died

  • Tracy Hickman, 57, seen here with her partner, Paul Qualtrough: they are standing in front of a window with light streaming through shutters in a room with white walls. He is standing behind her with his arms around her shoulders, and is wearing a grey T-shirt; she has short blond hair and is wearing a cream-coloured knitted jumper, and is holding her hands up over his. She is smiling and holding her face to the light, and they look peaceful.

    Woman having assisted death calls for UK law change: ‘The closer it gets, the more peaceful I feel’

  • I’m a grandmother now, but this Mother’s Day I will miss my mum as keenly as any child

  • Digital recreations of dead people need urgent regulation, AI ethicists say

  • I went to the funerals of complete strangers. This is what I learned about the living

    Ruby Todd

  • How old is too old? I’m 77 and I don’t know yet. But I will when I get there

    Polly Toynbee

  • ‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

  • ‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit

  • Much Ado About Dying review – brave, loving record of an actor uncle’s last days

  • Red Herring review – document of family soul-searching after terminal diagnosis

April 2024

  • Photograph: Gaia Moments/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ – podcast

  • A woman holding hands with her man in the hospital.

    I didn’t get to be with my parents as they died. But they knew I loved them

  • Jenny Jenner on her sunflower farm in Kalbar

    ‘They just make you happy’: the Queensland farmers who took a chance on a million sunflowers

  • Woman holding hands with a man in hospital

    To be present as a loved one died was an honour for us

  • What does a death doula do? Alua Arthur on her ancient profession

  • The moment I knew
    The moment I knew: my brother’s voice was so clear in my head – ‘This is the man you’re going to marry’

  • Special memories of Lynne Reid Banks

  • It is a privilege to be present when someone dies. If only I’d seen it that way, it would have helped me no end

    Adrian Chiles
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