Talking About Death
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Jun- 2025 -13 JuneCharity
Child Bereavement UK launches animation for bereaved teens
Child Bereavement UK has launched a new animated short film, highlighting the isolation bereaved young people can feel when others…
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Apr- 2025 -23 AprilCharity
Funeral arranger to run 5k per day for Dying Matters in May
Funeral Partners has announced that its newly-appointed funeral arranger, Jenny Rufus, is set to take on a running challenge in…
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Dec- 2023 -13 DecemberCurrent Affairs
Co-op Funeralcare calls on govt for better bereavement support
Co-op Funeralcare has written to the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition to implement the UK Bereavement’s Commission’s recommendations…
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Sep- 2023 -27 SeptemberLatest News
Co-op instals 11-foot elephant statue to promote conversations about death
Co-op Funeralcare has placed an ‘elephant in a room’ installation in London this week, to get the nation talking about…
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May- 2021 -20 MayFeatures
‘We All Know How This Ends’: Discussing death and dying through writing
For many of us, death and dying can be difficult to engage with, a final taboo in the lives we…
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14 MayLatest News
Notts funeral directors calls for public to start ‘talking’ about death
A.W. Lymn, Nottinghamshire’s largest independent funeral directors, is calling on the British public to start “talking” about death after the…
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10 MayFeatures
Not talking about death could mean ‘funeral poverty’ for families
The term “funeral poverty” is described to coin the ever-increasing number of families who struggle to pay for funerals for…
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Feb- 2021 -16 FebruaryFeatures
We need to talk more
There are probably few people in the world more at ease than funeral directors when it comes to talking about…
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Jan- 2021 -14 JanuaryPeople
Bereaved families lose £171m a year cancelling subscriptions
Grieving families spend over seven million hours a year cancelling subscription services following the death of a loved one, which…
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May- 2020 -18 MayCoronavirus
Pandemic prompts four in 10 young people to talk about death, study finds
Four in 10 young people in the UK say that the Covid-19 pandemic has prompted them to have a conversation…
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