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Technology

Evading death and mind-uploading: The ambition of transhumanism

Transhumanists could not stop for Death but they kindly stopped for Mark O'Connell, who has captured their beliefs and anxieties in his Wellcome Book Prize winning travelogue

Culture

Donor registration screen

Health

Why the UK's new opt-out organ donation plan probably won't work

Analysis

patient

Health

Trump's 90-day plan for opioids has failed – here's a better one

Insight

A restraining bed for an execution

Health

Copycat justice has turned US counties into execution hotspots

News

Number 8

Health

Why a nasty surprise lurks 100 years on from the lethal 1918 flu

Culture

operation

Health

Restarting dead people's hearts lets doctors reuse their organs

Insight

Fentanyl Citrate

Health

Fentanyl considered for execution cocktail by two US states

News

Health

Victoria is first state in Australia to legalise euthanasia

News

Pokemon road safety sign

Technology

Did Pokémon Go really kill 250 people in traffic accidents?

Analysis

Five death rituals to give you a new view on funerals

Humans

Five death rituals to give you a new view on funerals

Every culture has a different death ritual – some involving levels of intimacy that would be unthinkable to people in the West. Here are just five of them

Features

Humans

Get closer to death to make the most of life

Leader

Technology

Letting robots kill without human supervision could save lives

Insight

Humans

This mortician wants to fix our broken relationship with death

Features

Humans

Why burying loved ones in unmarked graves could save wildlife

News