Back from the dead

One morning, after 65-year-old Chonthirat Sakulku had been bedridden for two years with deteriorating health, her brother found that she had stopped breathing and assumed she was dead. He alerted the

Do older people see more ghosts? In the 1985 film version of EM Forster’s A Passage to India, a character refers to the tendency of older people to believe in ghosts, remarking “that it’s difficult, a

HARROWING NEW DETAILS HAVE EMERGED IN THE DEATH OF 10-YEAR-OLD REBEKAH BAPTISTE

Sam Morris, 30, was excited for her birthday treat when tragedy struck

John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling

Having always relied on running to help her through tough times, Lisa Jackson lost her mojo when she needed it most. The RW columnist shares her journey through grief, how she finally managed to fall back in love with running and how you, too, can reignite the spark