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In the age of the Zimmer frame, carpet slippers, the colostomy bag, wheel chair, hearing aid, vacant stare, broken hip, toothless grin etc. etc. its important to remember it doesn’t need to be like that. We are all living longer and must not forget that. If you are reading this while sitting on the sofa in […]

It can be very easy to slip into a mind set that a person with dementia can no longer do things. This may be because they take longer, or break things, or get frustrated. But that doesn’t matter . I can’t drive a car like Jensen Button but it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t drive. There […]

What to do if you have forgotten to sever the joint tenancy, but you still want your kids to get your half of the house Often, where there has been a second marriage, the parties to it wish to leave their respective shares in the matrimonial home to the children from their first marriage. In […]

The hunt goes on for signs of water on Mars. But is this a true sign of life? If you’re really looking for signs of civilisation then don’t you need to find a decent pub? What is the point of the universe if you can’t get a good pint of bitter – I know people […]

Did you hear Wilko Johnson’s interview on BBC Radio 4′s Front Row last night? Wilko is a musician and former guitarist with the band Dr Feelgood. He’s been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and given 10 months to live. He can stretch this to 12 apparently with the aid of chemotherapy. Wilko has decided to […]

What is the Death Café? At Death Cafes people come together in a relaxed and safe setting to discuss life and death, drink tea and eat delicious cake. The objective of Death Cafe is “To increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives”. “Somebody should tell […]

“It is the first time I have been able to talk about my mother’s death without ending up a gibbering wreck” This parting comment brought home to me what the Death Café was all about. An opportunity for people to have a space in which they could discuss their thoughts and fears about death openly. […]

There will be a Death Cafe at St Nicholas Hospice, Bury St Edmunds, on the 14th March all are welcome to attend. It will be an evening of life, death and cake. The Cafe will be open for all three between 7.00 – 9.00 PM. For more information about the Death Cafe see our blogs […]

I saw a client today. We got to discussing what he would want said when he died. I asked him how he’d met his wife. ‘It was love at first sight’ he said. ‘On our first date we went to the cinema and saw Meet Me in St Louis. On the way back I asked […]

It’s a four hour round trip from Borley Green to Covent Garden, discounting the time spent staring at the departure board. So four hours to spend another two talking about death may sound a little strange. On the 26th November I visited the Wild Food Cafe in Covent Garden. A Death Cafe was being held […]