I want to be upfront with you. This post is about giving the benefit of the doubt to people who have said the wrong thing(s) to you in your grief. I feel the need to preface this because I know many of our readers have been treated poorly […]

A failure to innovate could mean the death of the traditional industry.

In the sometimes cut-throat environment of academia with limited funding and job prospects, it can sometimes feel like altruism may be lost forever. Academia can wear you down psychologically and p…

My latest edited book is out now in all good bookshops and also via the internet: Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society. Co-edited with Mel Giles (Manchester Un…

There are calls for a major rethink of how employees are treated when a relative dies.

In the time leading up to the end of someone's life, the most important thing you can do is to offer to be there for the person. Be consistent in the time you make available to them and visit as often as you can. This familiarity will foster a comfortable relationship where you can both share your feelings, fears, wishes and hopes.

Instead, we should fear not knowing how to handle our suffering, according to Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh in his book The Art of Living.

Instead, learn « emotional agility. »

This is not the work of a benevolent medical system.

People across Basildon and Brentwood are being asked to celebrate life by sharing their favourite images of friends, family or pets who have died in…

With the UK mourning the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, employers should consider how they can better support grieving employees now and in the future.

VISITORS to a Bradford bar will be invited to chat about death over a pint or cocktail as part of a push to get more people talking about the taboo…

Cancer charity says there is a 'crisis of communication' in UK over dying

If you're squeamish, look away now.

Sometimes our words fail to capture the depth of grief. Today, we're asking you to finish the sentence "Grief is like...".

Men and women gather over coffee and snacks at a "Death Cafe" at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan, to talk about dying

Are there ever times when doctors should go against what their patients have indicated regarding their end-of-life wishes? One physician says yes.

Of all the unimaginable aspects of grief, there is one thing we hear people say time and again that they really didn't expect: physical grief symptoms.

Guest post by Hasina Zaman of Compassionate Funerals There are many facets to being a funeral director. Much of our work seems to stay behind closed doors. Are we actively shielding the public from the dead or is society choosing not to embrace death as a part of life? Death has perhaps become removed from the everyday lifecycle experience. Our aim is to bring it out into the open by explaining some of the processes we go through. The aim of this article is to best describe how we care for the dead. At Compassionate Funerals we are dedicated to caring for both the bereaved and deceased. It’s very important that we work together with the bereaved so that they are at the heart of the funeral process. We believe it’s important that funerals are personalised, meaningful and empowering. Before we collect the deceased there are a …Read More→

Often when you lose one person, you lose other people along with them. But I don't like knowing that relationships are impermanent, that people come and go.

Professionals arrived to do the job they were sent to do – take bloods, give drugs, request a hospital bed at home. They didn’t take the time to understand that what Dad wanted most was to be outside, to feel the sun, wind and rain on his face

The family of a Pendleside Hospice patient who died just six hours after spending time with Joey Barton has praised the Clarets midfielder for chatting to the 72-year-old Burnley fan.

My Table Is Spread: My mother-in-law requested that her 10 granddaughters serve as pallbearers for her funeral. These women were no strangers to shouldering life's demands.

Mr Shane Teo is only 28 years old but he has already embalmed some 280 bodies, including that of his grandmother.

Now surrender is no longer like riding a regular bike. It is not as simple as “just pedal.” It is more like the bike keeps changing – someone keeps raising the bar and suddenly I am on skinny tires, and then on to a unicycle, and then on to a unicycle atop a high-wire, and

Thousands of cancer patients every year are dying in hospital against their wishes, a study by Macmillan Cancer Support has […]

Heartbroken widower Russell Davison says he wants to challenge attitudes towards death.

‘It seems that there is a rise in tombstone tourism’ started the article. Within the past month or so, awareness to cemeteries as places to visit in the capacity of a social/educational…

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Rising demand means half of funeral directors and crematoria can now live-stream services online.

It took a British doc, a simple recipe for liquid morphine and a lot of re-education.

Joanna Ebenstein's grandmother confessed to her in private — not because she had a secret to tell, but because no one else wanted to hear it.Grandma was in her 90s by then and had been with her husband for over 70 years before he passed away. She was eager to die herself and join her beloved, and sh...