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From end-of-life care to burials and beyond, we answer your questions on mortality. We are all going to die. Yet this ...
Far more than ‘the morbid pages at the back’, obituaries are a reflection of the modern world that are forever evolving ...
Every day newspapers devote a few pages to covering the lives of interesting and eccentric characters. They are a testament not to the roar of humanity, but the satisfied purr of a life well-lived.
We should bring it back (the art of dying, not the plague), but we are still timorous when talking about death in the abstract. Occasionally someone breaks ranks – most recently Chris Hoy, that ...
Wisdom From the 'Philosopher King'—75 Famous Quotes From Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius originally appeared on Parade.
It soon transpired that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Swarbrick saw the piece as he recovered from emphysema in a hospital bed in Coventry. “He read the obituary and didn’t ...
Here are a few quotes to help you bring things into better perspective, because truly, the time that we spend on such pettiness is too precious to waste. ♦ Don't be fooled by the calendar.
Why shouldn’t Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations.
A survey released over the weekend by Channel 12 News in Israel revealed that 82% of Israelis support a hostage deal that would include an end to the war (some reports in the Israeli media said that ...
But the Brits are the people of a great nation, the people of ‘the sun never set’, the people of Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, ...
What sort of life are you living? An elderly American and his family are visiting Normandy Cemetery in France. He is leaning ...
Known as the tough guy in a scene that produced David Hockney and others, he filled his paintings with gleaming car parts and ...