From ‘Bureaucracy adds to the pain of bereavement’
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Where to find more help - books and websites
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The grief journey
Grieving for a loved one can be long and painful. This is a helpful article.
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Do you want to be resuscitated? What you should think about.
Helpful suggestions about talking with relatives/friends about wishes around death:
Families commonly report that it comes as a relief once the subject is brought out into the open.
Covid - 19 - Planning for ‘end of life’ situations
The COVID-19 emergency makes end of life planning essential NOW - we are all at risk
Coronavirus: Coping with Dying
In the UK most deaths have been among those already frail from old age or chronic illness. A few were young and in apparently good health. They died in hospital, alone apart from medical staff because no visitors are allowed. After death the body is sealed, no one can view the body. No funerals are allowed, just a cremation or burial. What then can we do?
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Coronavirus: Doctors urge talking about dying
The BBC reports that Palliative care doctors are urging people to have a conversation about what they would want if they, or their loved ones, became seriously unwell with coronavirus.
The cost of Funerals
To add to all the other worries that a death and bereavement can bring, many people may also have very practical worries about the cost of a funeral. Like the cost of weddings the cost of funerals seems to have been inflating in recent years.
