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Paid leave for grieving parents

Campaigners and grief charities are delighted as a new law is passed, allowing parents paid time off work to grieve their child's death

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Dear Annie: Will moving house heal my grief pain?

Can a physical move away from a place that holds memories be healing? That depends, says grief expert Annie Broadbent, on what you're moving towards

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Paid leave for grieving parents 'soon to become law'

Campaigners anticipate The Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill will receive Royal Assent before Parliament's summer recess begins

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The Dinner Party

Millennials are breaking the painful silence that can follow grief, over dinner with strangers at a groundbreaking supper club

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‘Dance helped me grieve: We need to feel the pain and release it’

The death of her husband Jeremy plunged wellbeing entrepreneur Shalini Bhalla into darkness, but she reveals how grief has taught her to live

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Grief in six words: How would you express it?

Home truths can be more poignant than flash fiction, as bereaved people convey their grief in six words in a dedicated online space

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Interview: ‘Suffering is optional’ David Kessler on grief, pain – and life

With Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler introduced the Five Stages of Grief. We can’t avoid the pain of loss, he says, but how we grieve reflects the way we live our lives

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Dear Annie: I’m caught in grief-eating cycle

Aware of the grief emotions that have led her to comfort-eat, J asks grief expert Annie Broadbent how do I gain control over this?

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Live-stream funerals: Paying respects

You can watch a live-stream funeral virtually anywhere. What to expect, modern manners and bearing witness in a respectful way

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End of life goal: The football funeral

Fans of this Championship football club can have a memorial service at its London stadium and their ashes laid to rest beneath the pitch

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My Daddy Is My Superhero

Michaelagh Broadbent’s husband Harry has a brain tumour. With his blessing, she has written a children's bereavement book for their boys to read when he’s no longer there

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17 creative cremation ashes ideas

Viking ships, vinyl, tattoos, underwater cemeteries and more: A host of inspirational and unusual ideas for what to do with cremation ashes

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Bereavement, inquests and news reports

How much can be reported in the news after a coroner's inquest and what can journalists ask and write about your loved one?

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Dear Annie: I’ve lost my child and my identity

Parenthood after loss: A mother grieving the death of her only child asks, how do I convey what I still am?

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What bereaved dads want you to know this Father’s Day

These dads were asked, this Father’s Day, what do you want to share with other people about life after child loss?

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