Legacies and memorials
Regretfully, after a person’s death, it is not unusual for funeral participants to discover more about the person’s life during the...
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Judy Carole
- Jan 22, 2021
- 4 min
Who Cares for the Carer?
“Unless we support the carers, the carers aren’t going to support the patients, then we’re all going to be struggling.”** When you are...
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Judy Carole
- Jan 22, 2021
- 4 min
Spending Time with the Person who Died
The human race spent approximately 10,000 years being present with their dead and, as recently as 100 years ago, it was not unusual for...
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Judy Carole
- Jan 22, 2021
- 3 min
The Lack of External Symbols of Grief
The journey of grief is a solitary one. Although we have no choice but to walk it alone, this is a time when we need access to as much...
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Judy Carole
- Jan 22, 2021
- 4 min
Coping with grief Aura
Much has been written about grief, and theories abound However, theories are simply that; they are different people’s opinions, but what...
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Judy Carole
- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
What to say when you don't know what to say
Why is it that that we find it so difficult to know what to say to someone who has recently been bereaved? Our society has avoided...
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Judy Carole
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
Return to Sender
I think of end of life as having a ‘return to sender’ ticket that we are all born with and studiously ignore! it is an invisible return...
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Judy Carole
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
What is a Death Doula?
At the beginning of the year I proudly announced on my Face Book page the completion of my death doula course. Paradoxically I was not...
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Judy Carole
- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
End of Life Choices
According to The Guardian, ‘research shows that 70% of adults would like to be cared for and die in their own home. But great majority of...
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Judy Carole
- Jul 19, 2019
- 3 min
What to say when you don't know what to say
In every Bereavement and Loss workshop that I have facilitated over the years, regardless of the role of the participant, the question of...
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