Stories from: Barts Pathology Museum, London

It is a family tradition to cremate our relatives and then throw the ashes into the Thames. This all started

We were lucky enough to learn we could organise our father’s funeral ourselves. 20 years ago, without funeral directors. It

At Guys Hospital they have a ‘Death Express’ – a small train with 2/3 ‘carriages’ that take the dead from

I went to my Great Aunt’s funeral – known to me always as ‘Aunty Min’. The vicar started talking about

My father-in-law was buried in a natural burial ground. My son was 3 at the time. As we were processioning

5 days before my mother died I cried uncontrollably. Her death wasn’t expected and I didn’t know why I was

My stepfather died in a community hospital. My sister and I were told he would die within a day or