Joy's power, Kaos reviewed, and assisted dying.

I witnessed an assisted death. We need to be honest in the debate about it.

The case for assisted dying appeals to choice and autonomy, yet not all choices are good. It means vast numbers of people will face a terrible choice as their life nears its end.

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The UK takes a step into the bleak unknown.

Literally life-changing legislation needs a parliament at its best not its worst.

It's not a reason to end a life, it's the very possibility of our being human.

The ethical principle of double effect.

In Canada the moral ethos of medicine has shifted dramatically.

MPs from areas where people are vulnerable and at risk were more sensitive to the dangers.

Despite attempts to normalise it, new challenges still arise.

A Japanese drama about medical assistance in dying, Plan 75, reveals a lot about our relationlessness.

If intense suffering caused by society drives autistic people to seek assisted death, then society has failed.

There’s hollow rhetoric on keeping people safe from coercion.

On the eve of her Theos annual lecture on 'Death for Beginners', Robert Wright speaks to former palliative care consultant Kathryn Mannix about the need for everyone to re-engage with the process of dying. Part of the Seen & Unseen How to Die Well series.

The risk and mental cost of forcing someone to act against their conscience.

Assisted dying and the unintended consequences of compassion.

Translating ‘lethal injection’ from Dutch releases the strange power of words.

What could not be said about the assisted dying debate

Balancing safeguards and economic expediencies after the assisted dying vote.

As Jersey begins to legalise assisted dying, there’s keyword confusion.

“What disabled people need is assistance to live, not to die.”

A campaigner’s call to change an assisted dying law got family calling MND sufferer Michael Wenham. Here he shares why such legalisation will increase people’s fear of dying.

Canada’s implementation of medical assistance shows that a society considers some lives not worth living.

Listen to curated to narrated articles. This week: the psychology of self-belief, the premier of One Life, and an answer to a particular question about assisted dying.

Living well in order to die well doesn’t simply happen. It takes work. It takes preparation. For All Souls Day, Lydia Dugdale asks if we are prepared for death.

We must defend a collective sense of care and generosity.

New GodPod episode. How well do we deal with our own death? What is a ‘technology-dependant death’, and should we want it?

In his first Notes from Solitude, the death of his dad causes Roger Bretherton to reflect on the relationship and the strange emergence of 'father’.

We need to do more than protest bad deaths, we need to protest death itself, it's more than biological.

Those programming truthfulness can learn a lot from mortality.

Pat Allerton reflects on the Barbie movie, the societal questions that it answers and the existential question that it doesn't.

Sharing her experience of her husband’s death, Yvonne Tulloch charts grief’s journey and shares signposts to help. Part of the How to Die Well series.

Lean into the weird around the ‘unreveal'd’.

If there was a way beyond death, shouldn't we give up everything to find it?

If Western society discussed death more openly, would Halloween’s appeal hold such sway?

It’s family ties that bind together a superhero story, a horror tale and a rom-com. Yaroslav Walker’s review sheds light on what these ties unexpectedly reflect, as he reviews Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania, Knock at the Cabin, and What’s Love Got to Do With It?

M. Çiftçi explores the evolution of a historic and contemporary commitment to protect the vulnerable.

The resurrection strikes at the heart of the cold reality of the human condition.

You can’t rejoice in its collapse and like its cultural inheritance too.

Out of mind old people are at the centre of Allelujah! Sian Brookes reviews the film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play.

The incarnation and an execution impacts humanity.

A classic horror film’s sequel deeply disappoints priest Yaroslav Walker, missing opportunities to address psychological and spiritual power.

From the opinion sites to the churchyard, we’re seeking a better way to live.