Sacha Langton-Gilks describes the choice that she and her family made to support their 16-year old son David, to discontinue treatment for a brain tumour. He had received four years of treatment, including several operations, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. He made this decision so that he could live the remainder of his life in a positive […]
Sheila Kitzinger, the natural childbirth activist who died in April, pioneered the idea of birth plans. Her daughters, Celia and Jenny, describe how their mother made a death plan – so she could die at home according to her own wishes. Read the article on the Guardian website.
Susie Steiner The Guardian Wednesday 1 February 2012 There was no mention of more sex or bungee jumps. A palliative nurse who has counselled the dying in their last days has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives. And among the top, from men in particular, is ‘I wish […]
In this Guardian article, Tim Lott writes that “I don’t believe in an afterlife but I do think that death is necessary, that it brings everything into focus.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/02/tim-lott-death-afterlife Photo by Vince Alongi
An article in The Guardian by Sophie Mackenzie on why her family backed her mother’s decision to stop eating and drinking when faced with terminal cancer. Doctors who have practised for a long time and seen many patients die at home describe as “taking to their bed” or “turning their face to the wall”. September […]
At the end of June, after 38 years of exits and entrances, the curtain at the International Theatre on Porzellangasse will fall for the last time
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who took the helm of his second government in April
Europe’s situation is serious – very serious. Who would have thought that British Prime Minister David Cameron would call on eurozone governments to muster the courage to create a fiscal union
Death is not a full stop on the end of someone’s life – merely a hyphen Jimmy Savile will not be left in peace. Whether raking over dead coals is right is not the question. Who a person is, or was, is a dynamic process that, particularly in the case of real historical figures, never stops […]
