Dying Matters Awareness Week 2019 runs May 13-19     For the last couple of years, Dying Matters Awareness Week has challenged us all to answer a question: What Can You Do? How can we help ourselves, or families and our communities face up to death and bereavement

My name is Mark Lemon. I am a children’s author, husband to Simone, and proud father of two beautiful children, Otis, seven, and Thea, three. At the age of 12yrs, my father was murdered and my world changed for ever. At the beginning of 2018, I made the important decision to publish my

If people who have a passion for something come together and work collaboratively, in partnership and with that passion at the heart of that they do then much more can be achieved collectively than the sum of individual activities. Our Staffordshire Dying Matters week in May this year is an example

Vaughan Gething, AM (left), Prof. Hywel Francis (right)  Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething’s ambition to designate Wales as a Compassionate Country has been warmly welcomed by Byw Nawr, the end of life care coalition in Wales. Professor Hywel Francis, chair of Byw Nawr, said