In the final scene, where Scottie faces reality and determines at the risk of spiritual death to "stop being haunted, " the love theme and the illusions it represents are ripped into ugly scraps.

NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

It is a concept album, each piece is a progression through the innocence and playfulness of youth, the joys and sorrows of life as one gets older, spiritual awakening and finally death.

CNN: The Internet was my music teacher

The complex funeral rituals and medical practices are evidence of the distinct spiritual and cultural systems framing life and death in the Palenque community.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

It was in 1989 that the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued his Fatwa - or spiritual opinion - that effectively condemned Salman Rushdie to death.

BBC: Despatches

After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.

NPR: Yusuf Islam: the Former Cat Stevens on His New CD

That could turn them from spiritual and emotional refuges to places of semi-mechanised death.

ECONOMIST: Doctor-assisted suicide

Forecasting collapse of the north has been unfashionable ever since a flood of false predictions after the death in 1994 of Kim Il Sung, the country's political and spiritual father since 1948.

ECONOMIST: Jaw-jaw