The Essay - A Good Death
Series of personal and very powerful essays in which writers ponder the much-neglected art of dying. They ask whether a good death is about just having lived a good life
The Essay - A Good Death - Beryl Bainbridge
In the next in our series on the art of dying, the novelist Beryl Bainbridge who has just died reflects on how the notion of death influenced both her life and work.
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The Essay - A Good Death - Julia Neuberger
Baroness Mary Warnock asks what we can learn from the Romantic poets when it comes to dying well, and warns that our obsession with staying alive can have disastrous consequences.
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The Essay - A Good Death - Julia Neuberger
Rabbi Julia Neuberger looks as how those of different faiths, or no faith at all, approach death and asks why we should all be planning for the kind of death we want.
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The Essay - A Good Death - Mary Beard
Mary Beard, professor of classics at Cambridge University, asks what - if anything - the ancient Romans and Greeks can teach us about the noble art of dying.
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The Essay - A Good Death - Thomas Lynch
Poet Thomas Lynch looks at the art of dying, reflecting on why death has remained such a constant theme in his work, and on why he sees little reason to fear death itself.
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