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Health, Sports & Psychology
The language used during end of life care matters
The language we use to talk about end of life care matters because it conveys the values we attribute to life and death says lecturer at The Open University, Dr Erica Borgstrom.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Methods in Motion: Emotionally sensing knowledge
Dr Ruth Evans shows how an approach of ‘uncomfortable reflexivity’ in cross-cultural research can help to reveal the work of emotions.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
A campaigning doctor has helped make Mongolia a better place to die than many much wealthier nations. Andrew North met her to find out how.
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Languages
What effect is social media having on the way we mourn global tragedies?
Is the outpouring of grief we see on social media after a terrorist attack or the death of a prominent figure a sincere expression of emotion, or more to do with self-promotion?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?
First year resident Shara Yurkiewicz shares her experience of performing the last task for a patient.
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History & The Arts
David Hume
This free course, David Hume, examines Hume's reasons for being complacent in the face of death, as these are laid out in his suppressed essay of 1755, 'Of the immortality of the soul'. More generally, it examines some of the shifts in attitude concerning death and religious belief that were taking place in Europe at the end of the eighteenth ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
How afraid of death are we?
As a society, we're starting to look death in its hollow eyesockets and pull it into the light. But how scared do we remain of death - and is it healthy to have a bit of anxiety when staring into the great beyond? Jonathan Jong explores.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Right to die: what about other circumstances?
Reasons for individuals chosing to end their life vary - is there one straightforward answer to the question 'do we have the right to die?' or is it more complicated than that?
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What are the rules around assisted suicide?
What are the legalities of assisted suicide, is it accessible for all and should it be?
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History & The Arts
Do we have a right to die?
Do we have a right to die? What are the moral and ethical implications of assisted suicide?
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History & The Arts
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
Works such as War and Peace indicate Tolstoy struggled with the meaning of life. This piece explores his pondering of life and death.