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Paul and family

13 May 2020

“I want my family to know that I’m as happy in death as I was in life”

Paul Jameson, 60, is the founder of Aura, an online platform where people can record their last wishes and leave messages for family and friends. To mark Dying Matters Awareness We...

Comfort pebbles

13 May 2020

Hand-painted pebbles provide comfort to patients separated from loved ones

A new initiative developed by artists Love On The Rocks and the CEO of Keech Hospice Care Liz Searle, supported by Hospice UK, is helping to comfort patients who are separated from...

Katie Costello

12 May 2020

On the frontline: “Working alongside this virus is tough”

Katie Costello is a Nursing Assistant in the Practical Care Team at St Catherine’s Hospice in Crawley. To mark International Nurses Day and Dying Matters Awareness Week, she shar...

Death Cafe

12 May 2020

How to run a virtual death café

Every year in May organisations and individuals up and down the country host talks, screenings, open days and exhibitions, but this year the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed events onl...

Headset call

11 May 2020

Grieving people think saying the wrong thing is better than nothing, survey finds

Dying Matters Awareness Week launches today. To mark the event Hospice UK has released new findings from Savanta ComRes that show that 72 per cent of those bereaved in the last fiv...

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11 May 2020

Grieving people think saying the wrong thing is better than nothing

To mark Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 11-17), Hospice UK has released new findings from Savanta ComRes that show that 72% of those bereaved in the last five years would rather ...