Dr Rachel Clarke has one of the most unusual CVs in British medicine. Before retraining as a doctor at the age of 29, she worked as a television journalist and documentary maker, reporting from war ...

We don’t think about death enough. How’s that for an opening sentence? Talk about an invitation to scroll down. Or up. Or anywhere else to avoid reading, and thinking, about death. But here’s my ...

I taught my first history class at Missouri University in Columbia when I was barely 21. But after just one day in a classroom of bricks and tile and no windows at all, I knew that to teach history ...

What is the meaning of life? That’s quite a big question. Philosophy and religion have long started their reflections with the fact that we all face death. If I will eventually die, what meaning do my ...

Hours before his death on Monday at the age of 88, Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church for over a decade, made a final post on X, formerly Twitter, about the meaning of life. "Christ is ...