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Why dying is becoming more expensive | Print |  Email
The average price of a funeral is expected to rise by more than 40 per cent over the next five years. According to a Mintel report, the average cost of a funeral in 2007 was £2390 and this is predicted to soar to £3350 by 2012, writes Gina Davidson in The Edinburgh Evening News
 
Royal Mail puts secular stamp on Christmas | Print |  Email
The Royal Mail has broken with tradition to feature both religious and secular images in its 2008 Christmas stamp collection, reports The Independent
 
One nation under secularism | Print |  Email
Democratic party presidential nominee Barack Obama, who combines the rhetoric of religion with the philosophy of secularism, once lectured theists: Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason, writes George Neumayr in The Guardian
 
Will parliament help people like Debbie Purdy die with dignity in the company of those they love? | Print |  Email
It was, sadly, only too predictable that the judges were not prepared to help Debbie Purdy get the assurance she sought - that her husband would not be prosecuted if he were to accompany her on her last chosen voyage, to the Swiss euthanasia clinic Dignitas to die. It is far more difficult for the criminal justice system to look the other way if the situation in question is in the public eye, writes Marcel Berlins in The Guardian
 
We are entitled to condemn this male barbarity | Print |  Email
She was a young Somali called Aisha, and she was 13 years old. Last week, she was murdered - not in an act of war but in the name of "justice." Her crime, according to her father, was to have been serially raped by three men. She had been, he said, a virgin. Fifty men representing the local al-Shabab militia, however, had a different version. They said she had committed adultery. So they buried her up to her neck and stoned her until she was dead, writes RUTH WISHART in The Herald
 
Faith is not the argument against assisted dying | Print |  Email
The real concern with the Assisted Dying Bill is public safety and inadequate safeguards, writes Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC in The Times
 
Exit Polls: The Religion Factor | Print |  Email
Twelve percent of those surveyed today say responded "none" when asked about their religion. They went for Obama 76 percent to 22 percent, reports CNN's political ticker
 
Do we have a secularist in the White House? | Print |  Email
Obama on religion - clip on Youtube
 
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