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Articles by subject: death

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 talks to Laurie Taylor 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
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