Podcast
Creed
Death & life
GodPod
1 min read

Lydia Dugdale: the lost art of dying

New GodPod episode. How well do we deal with our own death? What is a ‘technology-dependant death’, and should we want it?

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

A medieval book illustration of a person dying in bed.
A 15th Century ars moriendi, or ‘art of dying’ image.
Basel University, via WikiCommons.

How well do we deal with our own death? What is a ‘technology-dependant death’, and should we want it? Just because we can prolong our lives, should we?

These are just some of the questions pondered by our three presenters – Jane Williams, Micheal Lloyd and Graham Tomlin – along with physician and ethicist, Dr Lydia Dugdale.

Lydia talks the presenters through the historical shifts that have caused us to go from speaking about death openly and honestly, to having a newfound societal imagination that tells us that ‘death won’t come to us’ – and why that’s a problem.

This is one of the most thought-provoking episodes of GodPod yet.

 

For more about Lydia and her bestselling book – The Lost Art of Dying: Lydia S. Dugdale (lydiadugdale.com)

 

Article
Christmas culture
Creed
Generosity
1 min read

Giving is good for everyone . . . and not just at Christmas

A guest opinion for the Financial Times.

Graham is the Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness and a former Bishop of Kensington.

Christmas presents wrapped with red and white paper and string.
Freestocks on Unsplash.

Giving gifts sustains our communal life together. It keeps things in circulation, as they were meant to be. Taxation does that in a more systematic way, but gift giving is voluntary, engages our hearts, and creates a relationship between the giver and the recipient.

Read the full article on the Financial Times web site.

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