July, 2018 Archive
The week in Death
A round-up of the week’s articles on DEATH.io, interesting stuff we’ve found on the internet, and what we’ve been watching, reading or listening to. New DEATH …
DEATH case study: Microbes
We usually associate microbes with the flu and all manner of flesh-eating disease. But microbes stave off disease, are the fundamental blocks of living, will help …
Death and grief in different cultures
Here in the UK, elaborate displays of mourning and wide use of local cemeteries are just a few of the trends we’ve carried over from the …
What do we mean when we talk about a “good” death?
We talk a lot about the importance of a “good death”, but we’re unclear as a society on what this phrase might actually mean. There’s a …
How often do we think about death?
It’s thanks to our prefrontal lobes that us humans are able to realise, no matter what, death is coming. We hold the reasoning faculties to understand …