Stories from: Hospice UK Conference, Liverpool

For me death and dying and internally woven into ones culture and religion, even for those who claim to have

Our beloved Spaniel Jack, aged fourteen years, became ill and died. He was much loved and so much part of

On the way to my Grandpa’s funeral the limousine bumped into the hearse so that the door couldn’t be opened

My Dad was in his mid sixties at home having outlived his prognosis from his brain tumour by nine months

I thought when people spoke about out of body experiences, it was a load of crap. But I understand now.

When I was a ward sister in a cardiac/chest ward I went round and said goodnight to patients at the

At my Dad’s funeral the family were delighted when his music friends came up to us and asked if they

A middle aged man, Simon (not his real name). He had been battling Leukaemia many years and now he had

A Polish lady wanted to return to Poland to die. She was admitted to hospital and told she was not

Emma. My best friend. She died in June at the age of 29. She had Cystic Fibrosis but was told

As a very junior staff nurse in the NHS in the early eighties, one of my patients died. He was

I am a learning disability nurse and was told this sad report by a home manager of a care home.

I am a learning disability nurse and worked with a man in his forties living in his own flat with