* image via dyingmatters.org It’s Dying Matters Awareness Week — a chance to talk about death and our end-of-life choices. Many of us don’t have an open discussion with our families about our funeral wishes. Indeed, recent research by Humanists UK found that 20 per cent of people were left feeling… Read more

There is no new normal post Covid. Every one of us is, after all, grieving to some degree. That’s the idea behind my first feature for Saga Magazine, an article I have been working on this past week. My article explores, through case studies and expert comment, the loss we… Read more

Christina Patterson understands loss. The journalist and broadcaster often talks about how she has survived cancer and is the last remaining member of her family, having most recently lost her brother. “I am,” she says, “the end of the line.” Yet she still finds ways to celebrate life with her… Read more

The dome of St Paul’s Cathedral was illuminated in yellow tonight. The lighting up of this and other landmark buildings around the UK, accompanied by a live evening song transmission, was part of events to mark National Grief Awareness Week [pictured above]. The organisation behind it, The Good Grief Trust,… Read more