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  • 3 Nov 2011
    Japanese religious bodies discuss suicide and 'voluntary death'

    A Japanese interfaith symposium has explored the attitudes of religious communities to suicide, including the meaning of the term "voluntary death".

  • 6 May 2011
    Christians should not shy away from death issues, say Methodists

    The President of the Methodist Conference has said that a faith which shies away from the issue of death is "neither real nor relevant" in today's world.

  • 5 May 2011
    Celebrating death (even Bin Laden's) demeans our humanity

    So President Obama has decided that he will not release the image of Osama bin Laden’s body. The reason, he says, is that it could be used for propaganda purposes by terrorist organisations. How about the fact that making public the blood-stained and damaged body of a human being is just plain unpleasant, undignified and quite wrong?

  • 2 May 2011
    Christians do not rejoice in any death, says Vatican over bin Laden

    The Vatican has said that a Christian “never rejoices” in the face of someone’s death, even if that person has committed heinous crimes.

  • 14 Apr 2011
    Where is God amid the suffering?

    In a reflection which is both global and deeply personal in its implications, Savi Hensman looks, in the light of recent painful personal experience, at the age-old question of God and suffering.

  • 30 Jul 2009
    Purdy welcomes new Lords ruling on assisted dying, not suicide

    In a landmark ruling from the House of Lords, the final appeal court in the UK, a woman with multiple sclerosis has won her court battle to have the law on assisted dying clarified.

  • 10 Mar 2009
    Learning to die well

    The idea of preparing for death makes sense, says Giles Fraser. In a society that fears dying it has taken a reality TV celebrity to remind us of what is truly important in negotiating mortality.

  • 16 Jul 2008
    End of life strategy seeks to break taboo on death

    Facing up to death and investing in the choices it involves is at the heart of a new multi-million pound government strategy in England to support people as they come to the end of their lives.

  • 24 Mar 2008
    Williams says we need to face up to death, fear and greed

    The celebration of Easter challenges human beings to accept death without delusion, but it also seeks to challenge our acceptance that death is without hope and the end to all meaning, says the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  • 22 Mar 2008
    Death and resurrection is to be lived, says Methodist leader

    Today's world "lives with death and resurrection in many ways and in many places", says the president of the Methodist Conference in Britain. The duty of the church is to be with them in this and to point to the hope of the gospel.