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Bereavement in the Arts

Celebrating life in the face of death

 

Abstract

More than 480,000 people die each year in England and yet many people still find it difficult to talk about dying and bereavement. Dying Matters was set up in 2009 by the National Council for Palliative CareFootnote1

1 Two of the UK's largest end of life charities, Hospice UK and the National Council for Palliative Care, merged on July 1. The new organisation will be known as Hospice UK.

charity as a coalition of organisations that aims to help people start those conversations. In this article, Jessica Mitchell finds out more about their 2017 photography competition ‘Celebrating life in the face of death’.

Notes

1 Two of the UK's largest end of life charities, Hospice UK and the National Council for Palliative Care, merged on July 1. The new organisation will be known as Hospice UK.

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