death

Support for bereaved children in schools is patchy and inadequate, and teachers feel they lack the skills to help, according to a report from the...

Very old people are more likely to die comfortably if they die in a care home or at home, compared with dying in a hospital, suggests a new study from...

An ambitious seminar series began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, The Time to Die addresses a...

Jane Fleming (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) discusses attitudes to death among the very old.

Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the...

The Fitzwilliam Museum is marking its bicentenary anniversary celebrations with an exhibition on its remarkable collection of Egyptian coffins.

Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice...

Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died in 2013 at the age of 95. The founding member of the MRC Laboratory of...

Deprivation could be responsible for around 450 deaths from breast cancer every year in England as women in lower income groups are likely to be...

A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based in...