Marley is ten years old. She lives in London with her mum and two sisters. She loves horses.

Philip Ball knew that he wanted to work in end of life care in his student nurse days as hospices developed. After almost 30 years in hospices and hospitals working in the specialty, he is now lead nurse of the palliative and end of life care team at Milton Keynes University Hospital. He has seen the importance of having conversations about death and dying, and making the best of life. 

@JanSeventyFour is a Palliative Care Nurse and Coach who loves, gigs, laughter, silliness. She’s a Zumba addict, cat lover and is living with neurological disability. 

Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris has two tabby cats called Oscar and Bobo. She’s a bestselling author, and medical historian with a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her debut book, The Butchering Art, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science in the United States; and was shortlisted for both the Wellcome Book Prize and the Wolfson History Prize in the United Kingdom.

Anne Bedi’s father died in hospital on Christmas Eve 2018 at the age of 67.

Dr Jo Elverson is a Palliative Medicine Consultant at St Oswalds Hospice in Newcastle upon Tyne. She’s passionate about palliative care for young adults and people with learning disabilities.

Emma Dixon is training to be an end-of-life doula. She lives in London.

Shona Floyd is Regional Healthcare Engagement Manager for The Brain Tumour Charity. She’s also the parent of a child who died from a brain tumour.