Dying Matters Awareness Week Resources

Patricia is living with an incurable illness. Mumtaz’s husband Rasheeque died in 2021. And Lucy is a Palliative Medicine Consultant at North London Hospice. 

Together, their powerful experiences explore how language plays such an important part at the end of someone’s life.

Watch now [click or tap the image to play]

This is the main Dying Matters Awareness Week resource pack. The downloadable PDF includes:
 

• How you can get involved
• Talking Matters conversation starter cards
• Events toolkit
• Dr Lucy Pain's books (and more) to help talk about death and dying
• Materials to support your event: printable resources
• Social media graphics, images and headers.

The pack is available in English and Welsh versions.

This year, Dr Lucy Pain is our Dying Matters expert. She's curated a list of useful books (and more) to help start conversations and thinking around death and dying.

Download the low resolution poster for digital use.

Download the high resolution poster to print.

This print at home PDF has a range of bunting templates for you to display at your Dying Matters Awareness Week event.

In this online quiz, you'll answer six questions related to our polling of 1,000 recently bereaved people and their experiences relating to language and end of life care. 

On completion of the quiz, you'll find reflections from Dying Matters' expert, Palliative Medicine Consultant Dr. Lucy Pain, and some examples of questions you could ask when talking about death and dying.

As Dying Matters and Hospice UK, we'll be putting out a press release this year to national media about Dying Matters Awareness Week. 

But if you're holding an event, or promoting Awareness Week yourself, you can use our handy template to send to your local and regional press.