We Need to Talk About Death and Dying

Old Trackway above Macclesfield, a special spot Hi everyone I had some lovely FB responses to my first post - copied here  Sue -Totally agree Deborah and am v much looking forward to talking with you soon. Have seen several loved ones through dying at home and worked several years as therapist with people facing death. Looking forward v much to hearing what you're learning Jayne - Totally agree Deborah - we def need to talk about death and dying - from all aspects! I've recently been researching the ecological impact on different ways that human bodies can be disposed of. I've written a will and written a very detailed instruction letter about what I want to happen with my body after death. It was a good process to go through and paradoxically very life affirming! Tracey - I am so glad that I had this discussion with my mother before she passed away... it really helped. Thank you I was also told that the bi-monthly journal 'Positive News' currently ha...

Hello Welcome to my new Blog - We Need to Talk About Death and Dying A strange subject? Macabre? Or life enhancing and liberating? I've been working as a carer for over two years, mostly with the elderly, many with a terminal diagnosis.  Being able to talk honestly and openly about death and dying with some of these people has been a blessing, to us both.  However, in general it is a taboo subject, even with those who are at the end of their life.  Very few people want to face death; the certain fate that awaits us all. When my mother, a passionate born again Christian, died 4 years ago I wasn't able to find anyone who would talk to her about dying.  The carers in her nursing home dismissed her requests to say her good-byes ('You're going to live for years yet!'), her minister, having been told to go away years before, wouldn't visit her, and her friends from church, who I asked to go specifically to talk about dying, avoided the subject.  Even her s...