Editor's welcome
Diverse humanist views on death and dying. Four Humanists UK patrons have recently resigned. The Liverpool Convention was a great success.
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Anthony Lewis
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Positive vibes at the Humanists UK Convention in Liverpool
The Humanist UK 2023 Annual Convention in Liverpool had a positive vibe following the increase in the non-religious in the 2021 UK Census.
News
- Jun 30
- 1 min
World Humanist Day: how did your celebration go?
World Humanist Day is always on the 21st of June – the longest day of the year. How did you celebrate it?
Guy Otten
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Humanists UK Convention: A brilliant festival of ideas and networking opportunities
The annual Humanist Convention is a brilliant fest of ideas coupled with great networking among humanists.
Aaron the Humanist
- Jun 30
- 3 min
What I would like from a national humanist convention
Our writer Aaron sets out here why the Liverpool Convention was not for him.
David Warden
- Jun 30
- 1 min
World Humanist Congress in Copenhagen
Humanistically Speaking will be at the World Humanist Congress in Copenhagen in August. We hope to see you there! We are currently...
Lisa Arnold
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Rapid increase in secularism in Switzerland: politicians must act now
Lisa, from the Freethinkers in Switzerland writes that despite the increase in the non religious this is not reflected in their politics.
Cath Sutherland
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Climate Motion at Liverpool Convention
Cath argues that Humanists UK should provide guidance to humanists about how to react to the climate crises.
Robert McKeever
- Jun 30
- 8 min
The Case for Assisted Dying
The terminally-ill have a right to an assisted death based on the principle of autonomy.
Maggie Hall
- Jun 30
- 9 min
Do we still need to consume animals?
An intensively reared chicken
David Warden
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Humanists UK resignations: we need a lot more dialogue about trans matters
David thinks that humanists need to have more open dialogue about the current gender controversy given the recent resignations of patrons.
Anthony Lewis
- Jun 30
- 9 min
Kissing your own elbow: how to love your life despite its transience
It is a brutal truth that all living creatures have their lives taken away from them by illness, violence or accident.
Aaron the Humanist
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Is it morally OK to kill zombies, or does this glorify death?
Killing zombies and waging battles against many different life-forms is a feature of many scifi film genres. Do zombies not have rights too?
Karl Singarvelan Raha
- Jun 30
- 8 min
Meat eating in India
India has a long history of meat-eating despite the recent violence from so-called 'cow vigilantes'.
Barry Newman
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Intensive care: the value of life and the cost of prolonging it
Those responsible for allocating intensive care resources are inevitably faced with hard choices.
Aaron the Humanist
- Jun 30
- 3 min
The causes of violent crime and alternatives to capital punishment
By Aaron, our design and layout editor In this article, Aaron attempts to understand the human motivation to kill, and alternatives to...
Penny Morgan
- Jun 30
- 4 min
Humans do not have a monopoly on grief: death rituals in the world of animals
Observations suggest that nonhuman animals have the capacity for grief and that they experience profound feelings of loss.
Keith Hayward
- Jun 30
- 1 min
For how long will humans exist?
A rule of thumb is that a new species lasts on the Earth for about one million years.. Keith doubts that we will reach that target.
Penny Morgan
- Jun 30
- 5 min
The Blooding of Prince Harry and the Boston Strangler
Penny asks - Does hunting & killing animals lead to a blunting of empathy and lead to violent behaviour by serial offenders?
Paul Ewans
- Jun 30
- 6 min
Humanist thoughts about death and suicide
Killing is rarely justified except in self-defence or when it is necessary to kill in order to save some innocent person’s life.
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