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Dying to be in nature

The modern funeral business is one that uses up precious resources and pollutes the planet. But you can make sure it’s only your memory that leaves its mark with these new and natural ways to leave this earth.

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Dying at home and the doctor’s role

Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.

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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high

The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.

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A brief history of ventilation

As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.

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  • A dying man in bed is surrounded by a group of people praying for him. Etching.
  • A girl setting off on a walk along a country road, leaving behind cigarette butts, cigarettes and smoke-rings; representing the smoke-free status of a group of school students. Colour lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • A young woman saying she prefers a young man who does not smoke. Lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • A young man saying he prefers a young woman who does not smoke. Lithograph for Stivoro (Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken), ca. 2000.
  • A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
  • An old woman with a basket in her hand asks a young man for a job for her daughter while blowing smoke from a pipe into his face, much to his disgust. Coloured etching.
  • A man stands drinking alone beneath a light in a smoke filled nightclub; a DJ deck sits behind a cage beside him; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust helpline for those affected by HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • [Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].
  • A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.
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BSL Tour of Smoke and Mirrors

Information Point
Past

Part of Access Tours and Discussions

  • British Sign Language
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Goldie Puricelli

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Past

Part of Perspective Tours

  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Shelley Angelie Saggar

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Part of Perspective Tours

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