What will your Digital Legacy be?
We all have a digital footprint. Every post on Instagram, every music playlist we’ve carefully curated. Whether it’s photos, emails or even gaming avatars, what will happen to them when we die and will loved ones ever be able to access them again as a means to connect and as balm to grief?
End of life care and learning disabilities
People with a learning disability and autistic people, who die earlier than the rest of the population face little or no end-of-life care planning. Lynnette Glass, BSW LeDeR area coordinator writes about their ambition to change this inequality.
In conversation with Kathryn Mannix
Wayne de Leeuw, ex-palliative care nurse and CEO of Dorothy House Hospice, interviews writer, speaker and palliative care specialist, Kathryn Mannix.
From the mouths of babes…
19 year-old Jess’s Mum died in May 2021. In this honest and disarming interview Jess shares her experience of death, grief and bereavement and its catastrophic impact on her academic career and personal life.
Supporting teens through bereavement
It’s tough being a teenager, especially in today’s world. It becomes immeasurably harder when you’re a teenager who is losing, or has lost a parent. Anne Montague, Trustee for We Hear You, discusses how to support teens through grief.
In conversation with Sir Al
From losing his father aged ten, to his time as England’s first Children’s Commissioner, the plight of hidden mourners and the role religions could play in destigmatising death - Sir Al Aynsley Green makes a passionate plea for change.
More Than Ever - a film review
Film review of Cannes nominee More Than Ever. A tale of love, loss, grief and conscious death against the breathtaking backdrop of the Norwegian fjords.
Beth Nielsen-Chapman Interview
On grief, mortality and the power of music to heal.
Death is a dirty word
Like birth, it is something that unites us all, yet death has become a dirty word. Part of Life is here to change that.