Death around the world and in different contexts

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Death around the world

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Although we all die, how we mark the end of a life varies between places and cultures. This article and associated animation explores different customs and traditions that people around the world perform in relation to death.



Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Centre for Open Thanatology Hub

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Check out the FREE content from Open Thanatology, The Open University’s interdisciplinary research group for the study and education of death, dying, loss and grief.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

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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.
Category: Health

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

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Learning about the climate and ecological crisis can be very disturbing and overwhelming. We may feel a variety of different emotions often grouped under the umbrella label of eco-anxiety. But what is eco-anxiety and how can we learn to live with the reality of the crisis without falling apart?

Category: Psychology

How afraid of death are we?

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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.
Category: Psychology

Death in Kerala

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Does the West have anything to learn from the sensitive and diginified approach to death in Kerala?
Category: Social Care & Social Work

An introduction to death, dying and grief

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Explore interesting and challenging ideas around death, dying and grief. This free course, An introduction to death, dying and grief, invites you to think more deeply about death and dying and encourages you to think about it in different ways. This course will introduce you to different perspectives on death; ethical issues related to dying and end-of-life care; as well as expressions of grief.

Please note that this course includes video about people talking personally about their experiences in relation to death and dying. If you have been affected by the issues in these videos, there are resources included in the course for further information and support.
Category: Social Care & Social Work

What is it like for a doctor to pronounce a patient dead?

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First year resident Shara Yurkiewicz shares her experience of performing the last task for a patient.
Category: Healthcare Careers

How should Rwanda remember the genocide?

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Up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered during the genocide of 1994. A quarter of a century on, how does Rwanda memorialise that event?

Category: History

Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome

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In Ancient Rome was physically violent mourning seen as a true manifestation of the mourners’ grief, or was the bodily expression a performance? 

Category: Classical Studies
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