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We want to capture the small actions

Small actions, big difference

We're seeking small actions that make a big difference to end of life care for an exciting photography project.

Participants sought for photography project

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Early identification means greater involvement in planning how you die

Find Your 1% campaign

Helping GPs & primary care professionals identify & improve the quality of care for the 1% of patients with less than a year to live.

Find Your 1% - helping GPs deliver quality end of life care

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Choose the right time and place. It's easier if you feel relaxed.

I want to talk about it, but where do I start?

Dying shouldn't be a conversation killer

Talking about dying can make all the difference to someone.

Why talk about it?

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Find out how you can be part of Awareness Week

Come along on the 22 February 2012

Awareness Week Launch Event

Want to be part of Dying Matters Awareness Week 2012? Find out how.

Awareness Week launch event: 22nd February 2012

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Have you talked about it?

Start now with our help. The Dying Matters coalition is encouraging people to talk about their wishes towards the end of their lives. It’s in everyone’s interest to talk about it, before it’s too late.

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Meet Dying Matters
Dying Matters will be at the Southbank Centre's Festival of the Living in London this weekend, a three-day event offering an eclectic mix of informative and thought-provoking events about death.
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Nation must talk more about dying
MPs highlighted the work of Dying Matters in a Commons debate on Care of the Dying this week led by David Burrowes MP.
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People deserve a good death
In an article published in today's Guardian, Eve Richardson, National Council for Palliative Care and Dying Matters coalition CEO, urges the government to make a good death a priority.
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Awareness Week launch event: 22 February 2012
To help you gear up for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2012, we are holding a launch event in Central London on the week’s theme of “Small Actions, Big Difference”.
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We have more than 15,000 members so far, and are actively enlisting those that are committed to supporting changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours around death and dying.

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Are you organising an event that we can help out with? Dying Matters offers a range of support to members looking to run awareness or fundraising events. You can also publicise your events in this section of our website.

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Support for people with learning disabilities
Our short film, 'We’re living well but Dying Matters', highlights the need to include people with learning difficulties in discussions around death, dying and bereavement.
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Something to say?
Get it off your chest on the Dying Matters forums. You'll find discussion boards on topics including end of life care, coping with bereavement and being open about death. Share your views, connect or give advice.
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Join us
Since our formation last spring, more than 15,000 organisations and individuals have joined the Dying Matters Coalition. If you care about changing knowledge, attitudes and behaviours around death, dying and bereavement, then why not become a member and help play a key role in our work.