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How to talk to someone who is dying

Anxiety can make it hard to know what to say to someone who's dying. Could recognising the signs when death is near help us say what we need to say?

#End of Life Planning

Cemetery walks to go wild about

From idyllic country parishes to inner-city sanctuaries reclaimed by nature, a pick of beautiful cemeteries that are a haven for wildlife

#Tradition & Culture

#Photogrief: grief in the digital age

A creative way to express your grief

#Bereavement

When grief gets complicated

Grieving someone’s death is different for everyone. So what are the signs that someone is struggling to cope, or to move on?

#Bereavement

Songs and sounds of sorrow: The art of mourning

Visitors can see and hear professional mourners from 11 countries around the world, in a thought-provoking art show about expressions of grief

#Tradition & Culture

Dear Annie: Coping with grief after suicide

Can grief ever be a shared space? Psychotherapist Annie Broadbent on supporting a friend who’s lost someone to suicide

#Bereavement

School for funeral celebrants

With many people choosing non-religious funeral rites with meaning, there’s growing interest, too, in training to become a celebrant

#Funerals

Exploring mourning in a fascinating showcase

Discover boxes of nostalgic smells and curious Victorian mourning tokens at the Remembrance exhibition at Abbey House Museum, Leeds

#Tradition & Culture

With the End in Mind

Kathryn Mannix has drawn on many end of life conversations with the dying to inspire us to become more familiar with – and less afraid of – death

#End of Life Planning

Child burial fees scrapped – campaigners welcome news

MP Carolyn Harris’s campaign has led to the announcement of a Children’s Funeral Fund to cover the burial and cremation costs of under 18s in England

#News & Events

Paid Parental Bereavement Leave: Your views sought

The Government has launched a public consultation to help shape policy over paid time off work to grieve the death of a child

#Bereavement

Bereaved face workplace pressure 'too soon'

Many people feel unready to face the workplace when they return to the nine to five after a bereavement, findings by Co-op Funeralcare reveal

#Bereavement

Dear Annie: Acknowledging sympathy messages

Is it polite to acknowledge condolence cards with a reply? Grief psychotherapist Annie Broadbent on the etiquette of sympathy gestures

#Bereavement

Funeral director on 285-mile funeral poverty march to London

Jonathan Robinson is taking a campaign against funeral poverty on the road and will walk behind a hearse on a two-week crusade to call on MPs

#News & Events

10 funeral poems for Grandma

Comforting and uplifting poems to read at a grandmother's funeral

#Funerals