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Goodbye, Mum
RIP Mum. As I clung on to you in the beginning, so you clung on to me at the end. The person in my life who knew me the longest. I wrote those words…
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Clare Cooper
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He Knew Me Better Than Anyone Else Has Ever Known Me
This time last year my best friend died.
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Gill Capper
Dreaming of Death
I’ve always been preoccupied by death. As a child I worried a lot about dying in the night. I worried about being suffocated or split in two by a…
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Caroline Bobby
My first death
Unlike many people of my vintage, I'd never experienced dying up close. Last year the universe sent me on a crash course, reuniting me with my friend…
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Lena Semaan
How Creating my Own Rituals Helped me Grieve for my Mother
I’m a skeleton collector. I have a large sea-washed radius from a sperm whale beached on the sands in Orkney. Part of its flipper, its hand...
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Serena
A Lament for Sinead
So many wild waves of emotion crash around in the wake of Sinéad O’Connor’s death.
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Caroline Bobby
The Death of Nadja - my Wife
Nadja was my second wife, and I her second husband. We were very happy together for 30 years when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in India.
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Luke Ball
My Business – planning your end of life!
My worst fear had just happened – my husband was dead, we’d had no kids, and I was left alone in the world. Aged 54, too old to be a young widow, too…
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Jane Duncan Rogers
Book Review: Dear Life – A Doctor's Story of Love & Loss
Dr Rachel Clarke is a specialist in palliative medicine. She has often been in the media during the Covid-19 crisis talking clearly about what is needed…
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Peter Judge
Leaning into Death
As some of you know, I am deeply interested in death and dying...
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Caroline Bobby
Talking about Death – would you take your child to a funeral?
This was the subject of an article I shared in my Facebook group last year and which generated a large number of comments. It seems there are many…
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Jane Duncan Rogers
I Learnt About Death from my Cat
Who would have expected to learn so much about death and beyond from a cat? Then again, who would you learn from?
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Francesca Cassini
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