Sharon Hudson is the Community Developments & Partnerships Lead at Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice.
Read MoreFive Things you should know about death if you have no family or you're estranged from them by Stephanie Owens.
Stephanie Owens works at Dying Matters. She feels strongly about helping those at the end of their lives and helping raise awareness about the importance of talking about death and dying.
Read MoreFive Things I wish I'd known when my mum died by Nicky Duffell.
Nicky Duffell is a registered Nutritional Therapist, a coach, a wife and a mum. She lives in Kings Langley in the UK.
Read MoreFive Things I've learnt about grief by Charlotte Underwood.
Charlotte Underwood was 18 when her father, Stephen Fox, died by suicide. She’s an author, mental health campaigner and suicide survivor.
Read MoreFive Things I really want the public to know about funerals by funeral director Lucy Coulbert.
Lucy Coulbert is a funeral director and the managing director of the Individual Funeral Company in Oxford, an independent, award-winning family funeral directors specialising in traditional and bespoke funerals.
Read MoreFive Things I wish people knew about grief by Catherine Betley.
Catherine Betley has been managing counselling services for over 20 years and bereavement care services since 2002. She believes that grief education is vital to improving our care of bereaved people ad that everyone should be able to access timely, professional bereavement support if and when they need it.
Read MoreFive Things I wish someone had told me after my brother died by suicide by Rose Heiney.
Rose Heiney’s brother, Nicholas, died by suicide at the age of 23. She’s a playwright, novelist and a screenwriter for film and TV.
Read MoreFive Things I've learnt from leading person-centred funeral ceremonies by Rosalie Kuyvenhoven.
Rosalie Kuyvenhoven is a celebrant and a Death Cafe host. She grew up in the Netherlands, but now lives in London with her husband and two children.
Five Things I've learnt about death and dying since my cancer diagnosis by Fizzy Snood.
Diagnosed with breast cancer, Sara Cutting faced the prospect of losing her curly blonde hair during the rigours of chemotherapy. But rather than let it get to her, she decided to embrace baldness by taking a selfie every day – and showing off a spectacular hat each time.
Read MoreFive Things I’ve learned about life and death from working in a hospital mortuary by Lara-Rose Iredale.
Lara-Rose Iredale is a Senior Anatomical Pathology Technologist at a hospital mortuary in London.
Read MoreFive Things to consider when arranging a funeral by funeral director Sarah Jones.
Sarah Jones, Funeral Director & Founder at Full Circle Funerals in Leeds
Sarah Jones is a funeral director and the founder of Full Circle Funerals, an award winning funeral home in Leeds. She believes ardently that we would all benefit from speaking about death and dying more openly so that we are better able to support ourselves and our loved ones in life and death.
Read MoreFive Things you should know when talking about death by Tracey Bleakley.
Tracey Bleakley is the Chief Executive of Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care. Tracey is on the board of the Gold Standards Framework and on the Lancet Commission into the Value of Death. She is also Co-Chair of the Palliative Care Leadership Collaborative.
Read MoreFive Things I’ve learnt from caring for the dying in hospitals by Dr LJ Smith.
Dr Laura Jane Smith is a Respiratory Consultant working in the NHS in London. Her job makes her think a lot – about people, life, death, inequality and how things could be better.
Read MoreFive Things death taught me about life in my 20s by Rachel Reichblum.
After losing both of her parents to brain cancer in the last two years (when she was 26 and 28 years old), Rachel Reichblum started her Instagram account @ThatGoodGrief chronicling quotes that have resonated with her, reflections on her day-to-day with grief, and the professional resources she's found.
Read MoreFive Things I wish everyone knew about funerals by Fran Hall.
Fran Hall is a former award winning funeral director with many years experience of both funeral directing and managing natural burial grounds. Previously a trustee of the Natural Death Centre Charity, Fran is now CEO of the Good Funeral Guide and oversees the GFG accreditation scheme, the gold standard for recommending funeral directors across the UK.
Read MoreFive Things my Mum’s death has taught me about life by Sally Wyatt.
Sally lives in Switzerland with her husband and two children. She considers herself to be a realistic optimist and blogs as Life Lemonaid. Her Mum died on 15th January 2019.
Read MoreFive Things I've learnt about supporting traumatised people after the traumatic loss of almost all of my family by The Fandangoe Kid.
The Fandangoe Kid has used her creative practice to process the enormous traumatic loss of almost all of her family. Having experienced society’s discomfort with talking about death and loss when trying to come to terms with her own bereavement, she seeks to use her practice as a platform for unearthing conversations around the vast and complex subject of grief, something that will affect us all, yet something we are still so ill equipped at handling.
Read MoreFive Things I've learnt from running a feminist death blog by Lucy Coleman Talbot.
Lucy is currently completing her PhD examining the Crossbones Graveyard in Southwark, London, where she also volunteers and advocates for it's protection.
Read MoreFive Things I’ve learnt about cancer and death after treatment for stage 4 throat cancer by Julie McCrossin.
Julie McCrossin had oropharyngeal cancer treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy over six years ago. She has recovered her speech and swallowing, and is back to her usual busy life. Julie is known across Australia for her warmth, humour, intelligence and commitment to social justice. She’s an Ambassador for Targeting Cancer.
Read MoreFive Things I learnt about grief after building a burial mound for ashes by Toby Angel
Toby Angel is the founder of Sacred Stones, a company dedicated to creating meaningful final resting places for cremation ashes, inspired by the ancient burial mounds of our prehistoric ancestors.
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