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I was 35 the first time grief came up and slapped me around the face. I can still remember pulling the quilt over my head and wanting the world to stop turning. Before that, my experience of loss was small and pet relate...

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Did you know that a funeral does not have to be held in a church or chapel?

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A traditional cookie-cutter funeral is fast becoming a thing of the past

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The first birthday after my father died, Facebook kindly notified me that it was his birthday and suggested I say hello. I burst into tears. Of course I wanted to say hello to him and to wish him happy birthday. I couldn...

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Our pets are family and losing them is real grief.

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When someone we know dies, most of us just want the grief to stop. The last thing we feel equipped to do is organise a funeral. If you have never arranged one before, it's bewildering. You don't know what you don't know,...

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There’s a belief many of us carry, quietly and often subconsciously: that if we talk about death, we somehow invite it in. That naming it makes it more real, more imminent, more likely to happen. And that can be very sca...

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My understanding of end-of-life care didn’t begin with training. It began with my father.

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