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Monday, 20 May 2019

Dying Matters Awareness Week is over for another year, although there are still events happening for the rest of the month and over the summer - click here for details. On behalf of all of the Dying Matters team here at Hospice UK, let me say a big thank you to everybody who has been involved this

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

How to support a child who loses a beloved pet

The death of a pet is a very challenging event in a young child’s life and they need guidance from their teachers, parents or grandparents to help them make sense of this loss. Routine. The loss of a pet is often a child’s first experience with death, and the circumstances of

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Dying Matters 2019 - Memorialisation

Poems by Alice Willitts. Alice Willitts has written about the experience of losing her mother to Lewy Body Dementia. Alice says, “Dying from dementia is like having the exquisite machine of your life taken apart into all it’s tiny parts, only to drop them into the bin.

Monday, 15 April 2019

Experiences of end of life care

by Emma Clare “I’m just in the bath, make yourself at home I’ll be down shortly!”, came the voice from upstairs. I checked my notes for this call, my first to Stanley’s after he returned home from hospital with a care package for a morning and evening visit. The

Monday, 1 April 2019

Body Donation

Dr Claire F Smith, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Everyone wants their life and death to having meaning, for some this is provided by giving their own body in death to science. In our life time we are all grateful to the medical and allied health profession who help us; it may be a GP

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

A Daughter’s Grief Helps Raise Funds For Hospice

Have you ever had one of those days where one phone call changes the pattern of the rest of your life? That happened to me on 19th December 2011 when I received a call from my Dad explaining that Mum was in severe pain. A few weeks later she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Then to add to that

Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Dying Matters Dudley, Creating Conversations and Death Friendly Communities

by Gemma Allen, Dying Matters Dudley/ The Mary Stevens Hospice Why is talking about death and dying such an uncomfortable topic? Why we are happy to share birth stories with near strangers, yet not speak openly about end of life wishes? Is it the fear of upsetting others, or

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

I Wish We'd Spoken Earlier

Norwich School are welcoming pupils in Year 8, 9 and 10 across our region to take part in a creative writing project in partnership with Dying Matters. Young people are invited to produce a piece of writing as a response to the prompt “I Wish We’d Spoken Earlier”. This phrase

Monday, 11 February 2019

Don't Bottle It Up

By Gary Andrews I was an only child and both my parents died by the time I was 31. It was too soon to lose them but I grieved in the ‘normal’ way and life went on. A few years later I met and married Joy, the woman of my dreams: tall, funny, kind clever and beautiful - I had

Thursday, 3 January 2019

A New and Growing Movement

This blog post is written from an American perspective. If you or anyone you know are in the New York area, then East End Doula Care can provide support by Susan Capurso What is an End of life doula? A doula is an ancient Greek word meaning to “Serve – Practically,

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