Living with dying

One million people in the UK have a diagnosis of Dementia - and although many of them are clustered around communities where the elderly choose to live, there are also, sadly, younger people in their ...

17 Elo 22min

We don't always give pet loss the attention it deserves - indeed we tend not to expect people to experience 'proper' grief when it comes to animals.  But many of us know that losing a family pet  can ...

3 Elo 20min

Lucy Carpenter works for HospiceUK as their Compassionate Employers Lead.  This means she works with people who are around death and dying every day in hospices, as well as those who deal with the ber...

20 Heinä 30min

Jess Seymour - who last talked to us (Episode 28) about the untimely death of her husband Matt aged 35 is now involved in organising an Art Trail for Thames Hospice where he died.  She shares her mixe...

6 Heinä 28min

Palliative care nurse Louisa Nicoll has interesting views on choice around treatment options, more information for patients, and whether it is always a good idea to die at home:

22 Kesä 27min

Jacqueline Gunn founded a company called Workplace Bereavement Advocacy - designed to train up individuals in every company to find, and befriend anyone who's been bereaved within their organisation. ...

8 Kesä 28min

Emma Gray is a solicitor turned grief counsellor and someone who helps people through the awful 'sadmin' that's involved when we suffer a bereavement.  She explains here how the tragedy of her husband...

25 Touko 28min

I make a return visit to the Greenacres Chiltern Living Memorial Park where I'm given a guided tour - on a rather windy day and on a noisy buggy - while I learn about the facilities in this beautiful,...

11 Touko 27min