New Humanist: Ideas for godless people

Articles by subject: death

Stayin' alive (by Stephen Cave, March/April 2012 )
Humans have invented an endless series of strategies to try and outwit the Grim Reaper. Stephen Cave explores our fascination with immortality
Briefing: Assisted dying (by Terry Pratchett, July/August 2011 )
It’s time the government gave us the right to end our lives, says Terry Pratchett
Going gentle (by Ken Worpole, January/February 2010 )
A series of new care centres shows modern architecture rediscovering its humanity. Ken Worpole takes the tour
Terrible beauty (by Roger Davidson, September/October 2009 )
Why is religious art so blood-soaked and morbid asks Roger Davidson
Diary: The green grass of home (by Brenda Maddox, July/August 2009 )
Brenda Maddox celebrates the distinguished life of her husband in a tent in Wales, with Richard Dawkins and Dylan Thomas
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley (by Simon May, May/June 2008 )
Simon May comes face to face with mortality
Death at Intervals by José Saramago (by Philip Womack, January/February 2008 )
Philip Womack admires another fable from Nobel Laureate José Saramago
Suicide sisters (by Jenni Murray, July/August 2006 )
How far would you go to help a friend? Jenni Murray enters into a very final pact
When I'm gone (by Laurie Taylor, January/February 2005 )
Laurie Taylor on loss and lament
Points of departure (by Sally Feldman, November/December 2004 )
More and more people are choosing humanist funerals. But what if you're after something a little more exotic? Sally Feldman suggests a new marriage of the secular and the sacred
'That's for the fellahs!': Laurie Taylor interviews Beryl Bainbridge (by Laurie Taylor, January/February 2004 )
Beryl Bainbridge, who died on 2 July, talked to Laurie Taylor in 2004, about death, religion and the novelist's search for higher meaning
The Christian Culture of Death (by Robert Ashby, Summer 2001 )
Robert Ashby, chairman of the BHA, looks at how we leave the world
Open hearted (by Ronald Aronson, Web Exclusive, June 2011)
Undergoing life-saving surgery Ronald Aronson realised that there is a force beyond ourselves giving our lives meaning. It just isn’t God
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