Lara-Rose Iredale is a Senior Anatomical Pathology Technologist at a hospital mortuary in London.
Read moreFive Things to consider when arranging a funeral by funeral director Sarah Jones.
Sarah Jones, Funeral Director & Founder at Full Circle Funerals in Leeds
Sarah Jones is a funeral director and the founder of Full Circle Funerals, an award winning funeral home in Leeds. She believes ardently that we would all benefit from speaking about death and dying more openly so that we are better able to support ourselves and our loved ones in life and death.
Read moreFive Things you should know when talking about death by Tracey Bleakley.
Tracey Bleakley is the Chief Executive of Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care. Tracey is on the board of the Gold Standards Framework and on the Lancet Commission into the Value of Death. She is also Co-Chair of the Palliative Care Leadership Collaborative.
Read moreFive Things I’ve learnt from caring for the dying in hospitals by Dr LJ Smith.
Dr Laura Jane Smith is a Respiratory Consultant working in the NHS in London. Her job makes her think a lot – about people, life, death, inequality and how things could be better.
Read moreFive Things death taught me about life in my 20s, by Rachel Reichblum.
After losing both of her parents to brain cancer in the last two years (when she was 26 and 28 years old), Rachel Reichblum started her Instagram account @ThatGoodGrief chronicling quotes that have resonated with her, reflections on her day-to-day with grief, and the professional resources she's found.
Read moreFive Things I wish everyone knew about funerals, by Fran Hall.
Fran is a former award winning funeral director with many years experience of both funeral directing and managing natural burial grounds. Fran is now CEO of the Good Funeral Guide.
Read moreFive Things my Mum’s death has taught me about life by Sally Wyatt.
Sally lives in Switzerland with her husband and two children. She considers herself to be a realistic optimist and blogs as Life Lemonaid. Her Mum died on 15th January 2019.
Read moreFive Things I've learnt about supporting traumatised people after the traumatic loss of almost all of my family by The Fandangoe Kid.
The Fandangoe Kid has used her creative practice to process the enormous traumatic loss of almost all of her family. Having experienced society’s discomfort with talking about death and loss when trying to come to terms with her own bereavement, she seeks to use her practice as a platform for unearthing conversations around the vast and complex subject of grief, something that will affect us all, yet something we are still so ill equipped at handling.
Read moreFive Things I've learnt from running a feminist death blog by Lucy Coleman Talbot.
Lucy is currently completing her PhD examining the Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, London, where she also volunteers and advocates for it's protection.
Read moreFive Things I’ve learnt about cancer and death after treatment for stage 4 throat cancer, by Julie McCrossin.
Julie McCrossin had oropharyngeal cancer treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy over six years ago. She has recovered her speech and swallowing, and is back to her usual busy life. Julie is known across Australia for her warmth, humour, intelligence and commitment to social justice. She’s an Ambassador for Targeting Cancer.
Read moreFive Things I learnt about grief after building a burial mound for ashes, by Toby Angel
Toby Angel is the founder of Sacred Stones, a company dedicated to creating meaningful final resting places for cremation ashes, inspired by the ancient burial mounds of our prehistoric ancestors.
Read moreFive terminal illness perks no one tells you the day you’re diagnosed by Kris Hallenga.
Kris Hallenga was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer at the age of 23. After finding a lump at 22, living abroad in China for eight months and eventually visiting her doctor three times, Kris was told the news that she had incurable breast cancer. She founded CoppaFeel, the first breast cancer charity in the UK to solely create awareness amongst young people, with the aim of instilling the knowledge and tools they need to get to know their bodies.
Read moreFive Things I've learnt after being diagnosed with incurable lung cancer at 29 by Saima Thompson.
Saima Thompson is the founder of the Masala Wala Cafe in Brockley, South East London. She writes about her experiences with cancer on her blog, Curry and Cancer.
Read moreFive Things death has taught me about grief by Charlotte Philby.
Charlotte Philby is a London-based author, journalist and broadcaster. Her debut novel, The Most Difficult Thing, will be published by HarperCollins’ Borough Press in July 2019 and is available for preorder now.
Read moreFive Things not to say to someone whose husband has just died, by Holly Matthews.
Holly Matthews is a TV actress, award winning vlogger, positive Mindset coach, speaker, Founder of The Happy Me Project online course & LIVE workshops and mum to two girls. Her husband, Ross Blair, died from cancer in July 2017.
Read moreFive Things we've learnt about taking care of people who have died, by the team at Poppy's Funerals.
Poppy’s Funerals is a funeral home in London.
Read moreFive Things I've learnt about cancer and death as a breast surgeon with breast cancer, by Liz O'Riordan.
Five Things I want you to know after my puppy, Vader, died. By Scout, age 8.
Scout is eight years old. She lives in London with her mum and two sisters. She likes taking her dog on walks around Nunhead Cemetery and enjoys eating chocolate chip gelato.
Read moreFive Things I’ve learnt from writing about death, by Rupert Callender.
Rupert Callender is a ceremonial undertaker, who started The Green Funeral Company in 1999 with his partner Claire. They became undertakers, (they prefer the term to ‘Funeral Directors’ with its implied etiquette and control) after hearing about The Natural Death Centre charity, an organisation that sprung from the counterculture. Their training mainly consisted of reading The Natural Death Handbook and being influenced personally by punk, acid house and crop circles.
Read moreFive Things I've learnt about death from Harold and Maude by Lucy Coleman Talbot.
In 2016, Lucy wrote the Little Book of Maudism. The book comprises of ten lessons to live and die by from the ultimate death positive film, Harold and Maude.
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