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Children's Grief Awareness Week UK
Dying Matters

How art can help children express grief

Emily Gray, art therapist at Saint Francis Hospice in Essex, tells us how art has been helping to relieve children’s feelings of loss and isolation during the pandemic.
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Dying Matters

“Hospice bereavement support gave me the courage to enjoy life again”

Hospice bereavement group has helped a local man find his smile again following the death of his wife.
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Dying Matters 2020
Dying Matters

Dying Matters 2020: a week of virtual events

Dying Matters Awareness Week 2020 has been a little unusual due to Covid-19 making physical events impossible. Instead, dozens of events have been taking place online, along with n...
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The congregation at the 2019 Hospice UK Christmas Carol Service
Dying Matters

Hospice UK Christmas Carol Service is great success

Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent, actresses Alison Steadman OBE and Fiona Dolman and TV presenter Sir Martyn Lewis CBE were among the celebrity readers at Hospice UK’s Christmas...
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Dying Matters

Japanese Maple, the farewell poem of Clive James

After being diagnosed with leukaemia and emphysema in 2010, the writer and broadcaster Clive James said that his terminal diagnosis led him to "start saying goodbye" through his po...
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Dying Matters

Britons want to sort out practical matters, tick off ‘bucket list’ items

Over half (56%) of British adults would focus on getting their financial and practical matters in order if they knew they had just 12 months to live.
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