Read our posts about Death

13May

End of Life Care: Why it Should be Everyone’s Concern

Michelle Brown

bereavement, death, family, illness, mortality, palliativecare, society

Relationships

To mark Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 8-14), Michelle Brown, Deputy Head of Department for Healthcare Practice, explains why everyone – young or old – should make sure they know what end of life care planning involves
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17Apr

How Prince Harry Was Helped by Bereavement Counselling

Louise Chunn

bereavement, counselling, death, grief, therapy

Mind

Prince Harry opens up to Telegraph's Bryony Gordon about why he sought bereavement counselling almost 20 years after the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales
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22Feb

An Artist's View of Death

Jacqueline Fahey

art, boardingschool, creativity, death

Soul

Jacqueline Fahey, 87, is a prize-winning artist and author living in Auckland, New Zealand. She looks at death through the filter of her long and creative life
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12Jan

Could Thinking About Death Improve Your Life?

Marianne Johnson

anxiety, authenticity, death, identity, mortality, self

Therapists

Many of the great thinkers of our time have considered their relationship to mortality. Therapist Marianne Johnson suggests this as one way to find a more authentic, engaged way of living
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27Sep

We Need to Celebrate the Lives of Loved Ones After Death

Louise Chunn

bereavement, death, friendship

Relationships

Going to memorial tributes for two former colleagues and friends has Louise Chunn thinking of how and when we should celebrate the lives of people we have lost
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09Jun

We Have Forgotten Death Makes Us Human

Seamus O'Mahony

death, family, home, illness, mortality

Soul

Consultant gastroenterologist and author of The Way We Die Now, Seamus O'Mahony believes we need to deal more humanely with the very natural process of death
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26Apr

How Being Closer to Death is Good for Us

Alice McGurran

care, death, family, mortality, society

Soul

Mortician Caitlin Doughty spoke to Claudia Hammond at the recent Barbican Open Salon event, in association with Canongate books. Here is what she has to say about constantly evolving death culture in our society.
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08Sep

How Creativity Can Help With Grieving

Sarah Royle

bereavement, creativity, death, therapy

Mind

Employing creativity and craft techniques can help people overcome loss and grief says Sarah Royle
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23Jul

What We Don't Know About Death

Patricia Pearson

bereavement, death

Soul

I’ve heard ghost stories about death before, but, until the spring of 2008, I didn’t realise that in reality they were usually love stories. No one in my family realized that until, one March morning, my father unexpectedly died in his sleep. My beloved elder sister Katharine happened to be awake in her bedroom one hundred miles east, that night. All of a sudden, she sensed a presence with her, and felt hands gently cupping the back of her head. Tender, loving hands; an inexplicable swirl of energy. It was an utterly uncanny sensation that she’d never had...
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