Dying Matters
@DyingMatters
Official Twitter account for @HospiceUK's Dying Matters campaign. Dying Matters Awareness Week takes place from 6 - 12 May #TheWayWeTalkAboutDyingMatters
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Kathryn Mannix
Retired palliative care doctor. Writer: 'With the End in Mind', 'Listen.' Wants us to understanding dying more, fear it less, listen better. Rep: @DHAbooks
The Good Grief Trust
The UK’s leading network of bereavement services under one umbrella Help & Hope from day one. Secretariat APPG on Bereavement Support.
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Official Twitter account for Hospice UK. We are the national charity for hospice and end of life care. Parent charity of @dyingmatters.
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Palliative physician. Former Clinical Director @hospiceuk Med Director @harlhospice Founder of #HPAL @hpal_medindex info site #rememberPhoebe💜
Why do many of us find it so hard to navigate the language around death and dying?
Episode 11 of the Living with Dying podcast explores this question. Listen to hear from a Pastoral Care Worker at Thames Hospice who uses this language day-to-day.
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🛎️Two weeks to go!🛎️
Dying Matters Awareness Week is taking place 6 - 12 May
💻 Have you registered your event?
hospiceuk.org/our-campaigns/…
🪧Got your resources?
hospiceuk.org/our-campaigns/…
🗺️ Seen what's going on in your area?
hospiceuk.org/our-campaigns/…
#TheWayWeTalkAboutDyingMatters
🏃♂️ Anghus from Godalming is running the London Marathon in full funeral gear! 🎩
He's so far raised over £5,000 for us and is championing conversations about death, inspired by our Dying Matters campaign.
Thank you Anghus for the incredible support! 💛
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Thank you Caroline Lucas for mentioning Dying Matters on BBC Radio 4 Today!
Caroline plans to become an end-of-life doula in the future. She emphasises the importance of honest conversations about dying for a good end-of-life experience.
Listen from 2:49:45: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
'Our grief is as individual as our lives.'
This week's #griefwords affirming how different grief can feel for each of us. Thank you, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Here’s one of my conversation cards from the Hospice UK Dying Matters resource pack. What do you think?
hospiceuk.resourcespace.com/pages/download…
Are you a caregiver? We've joined The University of Sheffield to launch a survey on wellbeing at work for those caring for someone who is dying.
If you currently care for someone, click here: ow.ly/1nGU50R8mly
If you previously cared for someone, click here: ow.ly/KGes50R8miv
5 new projects are funded by a Dying Matters Community Grant, supporting hospices & community orgs to work w/ underserved groups.
Congratulations St Clare Hospice Springhill Hospice Strathcarron Hospice Royal Trinity Hospice MarieCurie Bradford
Supported by Dignity Plc
hospiceuk.org/latest-from-ho…
'I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love.'
Thank you to actor Greg Wise for our #griefwords this week.
