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Although it's something we'll all experience, the idea of a course dedicated to death and dying might seem unusual. Dr Carol Komaromy explains why studying...  Read more : Why death and dying?

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Richard Wilson reflects on the actor’s experience of death on stage and screen  Watch now: Playing dead

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Dr Carol Komaromy interviews Dan Cruickshank about his experiences making the BBC/OU programme The Art of Dying  Watch now: Making The Art Of Dying: An interview with Dan Cruickshank

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Richard Wilson takes a behind the scenes look at the business of crematoriums and walks us through the ultimate final journey  Watch now: The final journey

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Richard Wilson enrols for the day at embalming school and learns about a fast growing trend  Watch now: Richard Wilson goes to embalming school

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Richard Wilson interviews palliative care nurse Deborah Murphy about the privilege and challenge of caring for people at the end of life  Watch now: End of life care

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Richard Wilson interviews Glennys Howarth about her research into how attitudes towards death changed in British Society during the course of the twentieth century  Watch now: Death and society

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Kate Woodthorpe introduces The Open University Death and Dying course  Watch now: Studying death

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Crematorium and cemetery registrar Angela Abbot talks to us about memorialisation and the emergence of "fairy villages" as well as the sustainability of burials  Watch now: Memorialisation

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Principal Architect Adrian Morrow explains the logic and sentiment behind designing a sustainable crematorium in Milton Keynes  Watch now: Sustainable by Design

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Funeral Director Roy Mason explains why he and his staff get "a massive sense of satisfaction" from their job  Watch now: Meet a funeral director

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Kate Woodthorpe talks about the hard work and dedication of some special people: The Cemetery of the Year Awards  Read more : The Cemetery of the Year Awards

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Dr Sarah Earle looks at the increasing use of the internet to create online memorials to people who have died  Read more : Death in cyberspace

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Jenny Hockey meets Tom Willis, a Church of England exorcist, and explores his role  Read more : Exorcism in everyday life

Death in Kerala Copyrighted imageCredit: Carol Komaromy

Does the West have anything to learn from the sensitive and diginified approach to death in Kerala?  Read more : Death in Kerala

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This extract explores issues about improvements in health care, and our expectation of a longer life. It is taken from a panel discussion that took place as...  Read more : Defying Death

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We all lead digital lives now - but does that online archive of our doings mean we'll also have a digital afterlife?  Read more : Death in the age of the Internet

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How do Darwin’s ideas help us understand extinction and the interconnectedness of life and death?  Read more : OU on the BBC: Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Life and death

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If you are experiencing bereavement or loss, there are a number of groups who offer advice and support. This is just a selection.  Read more : OU on the BBC: Death and dying - Help & support at time of bereavement

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This unit asks the reader to consider the experience of grief and bereavement and in particular the extent to which grieving people need professional help....  Read more : Death and medicine

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This unit helps you to explore the extent to which death and dying in western societies are medical events and what aspects of death and...  Read more : The medicalised context of bereavement