Plan the death you want before it's too late

Research reveals that if people felt more comfortable discussing dying it would be easier to meet their end-of-life wishes Talking about death is not easy. Most people avoid the topic. But ignoring the inevitable doesn't make it go away. All of us can benefit by talking openly about dying and discussing our wishes with those close to us and with our GPs. We are less exposed to death and dying ...

Let's not be afraid to talk about death

We are living longer, but have lost the ability to prepare for when our life comes to an end, writes John Sentamu.

EuroTrash Thursday!

New Illegal Drugs Available for Olympic Games? A recent article by John Mehaffey on Reuters reported on a anti-doping conference where German researcher; Mario Thevis told the delegates that maybe up to one hundred new drugs could be in use by sportsmen by the time of the London Olympic Games later this year and that there are no test for these drugs.

Ex-bishop poses a question of faith

RICHARD Holloway strikes you as a haunted man. He returns often to the graveyard near his old seminary, to think, to gently scrape the lichen off the names on the gravestones and sometimes to “cry in the way old men do”.

Let's not be afraid to talk about death - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Let's not be afraid to talk about death Telegraph.co.uk Despite the excellent work and many lessons learnt from the hospice movement, we are collectively far too prone to medicalise and institutionalise dying, rather than accepting it into our homes and communities, where most of us would choose to die. and more »