Jun 30, 20231 min read

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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Positive vibes at the Humanists UK Convention in Liverpool

Anthony Lewis

Jun 30, 20235 min read

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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.

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World Humanist Day: how did your celebration go?

News

Jun 30, 20231 min read

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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?

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Humanists UK Convention: A brilliant festival of ideas and networking opportunities

Guy Otten

Jun 30, 20236 min read

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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.

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What I would like from a national humanist convention

Aaron the Humanist

Jun 30, 20233 min read

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What I would like from a national humanist convention

Our writer Aaron sets out here why the Liverpool Convention was not for him.

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David Warden

Jun 30, 20231 min read

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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...

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Rapid increase in secularism in Switzerland: politicians must act now

Lisa Arnold

Jun 30, 20233 min read

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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.

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Cath Sutherland

Jun 30, 20233 min read

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Climate Motion at Liverpool Convention

Cath argues that Humanists UK should provide guidance to humanists about how to react to the climate crises.

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Robert McKeever

Jun 30, 20238 min read

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The Case for Assisted Dying

The terminally-ill have a right to an assisted death based on the principle of autonomy.

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Maggie Hall

Jun 30, 20239 min read

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Do we still need to consume animals?

An intensively reared chicken

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Humanists UK resignations: we need a lot more dialogue about trans matters

David Warden

Jun 30, 20236 min read

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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.

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Kissing your own elbow: how to love your life despite its transience

Anthony Lewis

Jun 30, 20239 min read

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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.

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Is it morally OK to kill zombies, or does this glorify death?

Aaron the Humanist

Jun 30, 20235 min read

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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?

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Karl Singarvelan Raha

Jun 30, 20238 min read

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Meat eating in India

India has a long history of meat-eating despite the recent violence from so-called 'cow vigilantes'.

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Intensive care: the value of life and the cost of prolonging it

Barry Newman

Jun 30, 20234 min read

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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.

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The causes of violent crime and alternatives to capital punishment

Aaron the Humanist

Jun 30, 20233 min read

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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...

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Humans do not have a monopoly on grief: death rituals in the world of animals

Penny Morgan

Jun 30, 20234 min read

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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.

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Keith Hayward

Jun 30, 20231 min read

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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.

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The Blooding of Prince Harry and the Boston Strangler

Penny Morgan

Jun 30, 20235 min read

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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?

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Humanist thoughts about death and suicide

Paul Ewans

Jun 30, 20236 min read

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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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Rick Field

Jun 30, 20232 min read

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About a Funeral

''there enters our loved one, slowly borne aloft like an Emperor''

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