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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. Show more
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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. Show more
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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. Show more
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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. Show more
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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. Show more
