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'Where's the compassion?': Council refuses to give 11-year-old boy his father's ashes after funeral
Funeral poverty

'Where's the compassion?': Council refuses to give 11-year-old boy his father's ashes after funeral

Bereaved people face 'significant barriers' while trying to organise council funerals, research by Quaker Social Action has found
How Mexico's women hijacked Día de los Muertos to remember the missing and the murdered
The Day of the Dead Women protests in Mexico City in 2021
Activism

How Mexico's women hijacked Día de los Muertos to remember the missing and the murdered

Countdown star Susie Dent: Why 'willanthropy' is my new favourite word
Willanthropy
Susie Dent

Countdown star Susie Dent: Why 'willanthropy' is my new favourite word

We don't know how much time we have. So let's be sure to use it well
Paul McNamee

We don't know how much time we have. So let's be sure to use it well

UK is 'failing' children as death rates rise, poverty surges and health declines at 'alarming' rate
Child poverty

UK is 'failing' children as death rates rise, poverty surges and health declines at 'alarming' rate

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'A national scandal': Nearly 5,000 deaths caused by cold and damp homes last winter
cold and damp
Housing

'A national scandal': Nearly 5,000 deaths caused by cold and damp homes last winter

How people are celebrating life and confronting a universal truth by attending their own funeral
Life

How people are celebrating life and confronting a universal truth by attending their own funeral

Succession shows grief is complicated. Here’s how to get help if you’re dealing with a complex loss
Brian Cox as Succession patriarch Logan Roy, whose death shows different responses to grief
advice

Succession shows grief is complicated. Here’s how to get help if you’re dealing with a complex loss

Robin Ince: My Dad is gone, but our shared love of books remains
Robin Ince's bookmarks
In memoriam

Robin Ince: My Dad is gone, but our shared love of books remains

Everyone is afraid of poverty, so why haven't we declared war on it?
J Paul Getty sits at a dining table alone
John Bird

Everyone is afraid of poverty, so why haven't we declared war on it?

Here's what happens when you leave your body to science
Health

Here's what happens when you leave your body to science

Organ donation: The light within the darkness
Health

Organ donation: The light within the darkness