My generation of writers is dying. Of Granta’s fabled list of 20 Best of Young British Novelists, 1983, six are gone, including our most princely satirist, Martin Amis. We’re all approaching birthdays where the... Read more »
Legalised assisted dying should “gradually” be extended to dementia sufferers, the author Ian McEwan has said. McEwan was “shocked by the snow-drilling attempts” by those opposed to the UK’s assisted dying bill,... Read more »
“We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes... Read more »
One might feel short-changed to read a book about death by Sebastian Junger that did not include some battlefield drama. After 1997âs The Perfect Storm, his bestselling account of a trawler disaster... Read more »
The assisted dying advocate and bestselling author Wendy Mitchell, who spent years documenting her dementia, has died, her family has said. Mitchell, 68, discussed her death in a letter published posthumously on... Read more »