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ITV Corrie – Sinead Storyline – Wish They’d Included An Advance Care Planning Conversation?

October 25, 2019
Lucy Watts MBE
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I have been watching the Coronation Street storyline about Sinead dying from terminal cancer with great focus. Corrie tackling an important topic, not just cervical cancer, but death and dying too. I feel they've done well with the storyline, whilst…

Dying Matters Week 2019 – Are We Ready? Our Short Films

May 18, 2019
Lucy Watts MBE
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This week it has been Dying Matters Week 2019; 13th-19th May. The theme this year was “Are We Ready?” and what a great theme it is, as we really aren’t ready and we need to be. Dying Matters Awareness Week…

The Big Conversation: Thinking about dying won’t make it happen! – Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016

May 12, 2016
Lucy Watts MBE
awareness week, BLOG, Blog, death, deterioration, digital legacy, Dying Matters, end of life, family, grief, health, hospice, illness, life limiting, NCPC, palliative, quality of life, Rest in Pixels
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Dying Matters Awareness Week 2016The Big Conversation We all have wishes, preferences and we know what we want. We make our own choices, we decide what we do and when, we make our own plans for our lives, we choose which…