Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
Love, grief and assisted dying
In this deeply affecting story, Michelle Elliot explores the events and emotions around the time of her mother’s medically assisted death in Canada, where the practice is legal.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Videos
Dying for a smoke.
Date: 1967- Videos
- Online
Dying for a smoke.
Date: 1967- Books
Dying for growth : global inequality and the health of the poor / edited by Jim Yong Kim [and others].
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
The smoke of the soul : medicine, physiology and religion in early modern England / Richard Sugg.
Sugg, Richard, 1969-Date: 2013- Videos
Public information film compilation.
Date: 1948-2003
Events
- Gallery tour
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
Gallery 1
Past
Part of Perspective Tours
- Gallery tour
Perspective Tour with Shelley Angelie Saggar
Gallery 1
Past
Part of Perspective Tours