Stories from: St Wilfred's Hospice, Eastbourne

Over my 40 years nursing I must have met thousands and thousands of people, and I truly believe that whoever

I didn’t have a pet, but went through the animal burial rite of passage with a dead robin I found

If you are interested in unusual places for ashes to be scattered, the father of a friend of mine was

Death has taught me my whole life… my dad died suddenly when I was 9. I was always the girl

My mum was given 3 weeks to live with bowel cancer, she lived well for 16 months, despite the last

My friend Jim and his partner Phil both died during the AIDS epidemic in the 1990’s. My last view of

My mum died in America while I was here in the UK. One of my sisters held a phone to

The first funeral director that had my grandma couldn’t stop calling her ‘the deceased.’ She was Audrey, Mrs Burgin, Mummy,