by Daisy Sanderson | Jun 5, 2026 | Dissect
Summit fever can turn the top of the world into a deadly obsession. In the death zone, cost, pride and exhaustion can make turning back feel harder than climbing on. The summit means the top: the highest point on earth, 8,848.86 metres above sea level. For climbers,...
by Daisy Sanderson | Jun 5, 2026 | Relics
Folklore expert Amelia Roberts answers our readers’ questions about the British death customs that still haunt everyday life. British death folklore is not as distant as it seems. Some beliefs with medieval roots still survive quietly in the way people respond to...
by Daisy Sanderson | Jun 2, 2026 | Dissect
Dr Laurance Donnelly has spent three decades using soil, disturbed ground and decomposition to help police search for buried remains. The woman with a spade Dr Laurance Donnelly first knew Saddleworth Moor as a child. He grew up east of Manchester, close enough for...
by Daisy Sanderson | Jun 2, 2026 | Living Proof
Young creatives, grieving families and HIV activists gather over cappuccinos. Born from AIDS-era loss, these cafés have transformed spaces of grief into sites of connection. Cemetery cafés are tucked into some of the Berlin’s quietest green corners, where coffee...
by Daisy Sanderson | Jun 1, 2026 | Living Proof, Top Story
At workshops in Accra, families commission coffins shaped as fish, planes, cars and lions, each one built to carry the body and the story of the person inside. At Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Labadi, on the edge of Ghana’s capital, death doesn’t come as...
