by Daisy Sanderson | May 27, 2026 | Living Proof
After a car crash left Marrianne Rooprai paralysed from the shoulders down, she clinically died four times and woke up in a body she no longer recognised. Marrianne Rooprai had been at a friend’s wedding with her sister when the crash happened on the journey home. She...
by Poppy Rae Wilson | May 26, 2026 | Living Proof
We’re all guilty of sleeping in every now and then, and the rush to throw clothes on and get out the door. But what if that simple action was what saved you from certain death? Are you familiar with the concept of the ‘Butterfly Effect’? Clayton James wasn’t. Not...
by Daisy Sanderson | May 22, 2026 | Living Proof
At Horton Cemetery, Europe’s largest asylum burial ground, around 9,000 people were buried by the state without names or markers. Decades later, families and campaigners are fighting for access to the privately owned land where they lie, and to give them back their...
by Daisy Sanderson | May 22, 2026 | Living Proof
At 19, Roberto Canessa survived one of the most infamous crashes in history by crossing death’s deepest taboo: he lived because the bodies of his dead friends kept him alive. On the screen, a heart no bigger than a thumb pulses in black and white. Roberto Canessa, 73,...
by Abby Thompson | May 21, 2026 | Living Proof
Learn how this thousand-year-old fiesta withstands the tests of time, and how celebrators vibrantly greet the souls of the departed every year. Pictures of loved ones perch on colourful altars, cemeteries crowded by families, music and laughter, the scent of marigolds...
by Jasmine Pegg | May 21, 2026 | Living Proof, Mind & Mortality
A New York artist talks through his near-death experience, his relationship with the things he creates, and what he thinks of legacies. In the middle of the mountains in Alaska, a hiker struggles down a steep slope with nothing but an old rope fence and his bare...
