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Living with dying

Dilys Morgan

72 episodes

3 days ago

Living with dying is a podcast where we try to smash the taboos around death and dying and open up the subject. We'll all encounter death at some stage so why are we so shy of talking about it? I'm Dilys Morgan and when my husband Michael Barratt died last year I felt really lost. We'd been together 47 years and he was 19 years older than me - so I should have been prepared! But as I stumbled around trying to rebuild my lie, I felt there was so much to learn, and I wished he and I had spoken about it more. Join us here for some healthy chat around death and dying - and surviving a loss. Finalist in the 2024 BBC Make a Difference Awards

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Living with dying is a podcast where we try to smash the taboos around death and dying and open up the subject. We'll all encounter death at some stage so why are we so shy of talking about it? I'm Dilys Morgan and when my husband Michael Barratt died last year I felt really lost. We'd been together 47 years and he was 19 years older than me - so I should have been prepared! But as I stumbled around trying to rebuild my lie, I felt there was so much to learn, and I wished he and I had spoken about it more. Join us here for some healthy chat around death and dying - and surviving a loss. Finalist in the 2024 BBC Make a Difference Awards

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Episodes (20/72)

Living with dying

Episode 72: Jane Harris

Jane Harris and her husband set up the Good Grief Project on the sudden, unexpected death of her son while he was away travelling. She describes the devastating impact of this loss and how they now devote their lives to helping others who lose children.

3 days ago

27 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 71: Dr Rachael de Caux

Extraordinarily, this week we celebrate two years of this podcast, and we mark this by talking to the CEO of Thames Hospice, where I found so much help and support in the early days. Dr Rachael de Caux is a passionate exponant of hospice care and here she talks about her work and unveils the huge range of care available today in her hospice.

2 weeks ago

25 minutes 57 seconds

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Episode 70: Lucy Easthope

Lucy Easthope is well known for her two best selling books - When the Dust Settles and Come What May - both detailing the wisdom from her years of expertise in the disaster and crisis management field. So I asked her what lessons for bereavement can be drawn from her wide experience?

1 month ago

34 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 69: Nina Nannar

Nina Nannar - ITV's Arts Editor - found her life turned upside down three years ago when her husband of 23 years, Steve, died after complications caused by kidney disease. She talks movingly here of how she managed to continue with her high-pressured, public facing role having been plunged suddenly into deep grief.

1 month ago

35 minutes 1 second

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Episode 68: Maxine and Marilyn

In many of these episodes we've learnt how finding people who've been through a very similar experience can be the best help in bereavement. Here, Maxine and Marilyn who've both found help from their local bereavement group Oasis, describe how helpful t's been.

1 month ago

25 minutes 58 seconds

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Episode 67: Dr Bill Webster

Dr Bill Webster - Grief Counsellor, and author and founder of The Grief Journey - is on tour in the UK at the moment presenting seminars on his experience of grief and loss and his advice for the bereaved and those who surround them. He shares his long and wide experience with us.

2 months ago

27 minutes 59 seconds

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Episode 66: Suzanne Elvidge

Most people who are widowed will talk afterwards about how they flailed around, went numb, didn't know what they were doing or how they were feeling in the early stages of grief. And yet it's at that time when decisions have to be made, action taken. Suzanne Elvidge drew on her own experience to set up the Widows Handbook and talks about it here.

2 months ago

26 minutes 10 seconds

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Episode 65: Richard Chalmers

Richard Chalmers and friends recognised a need in their community for bereavement support some 20 years ago. Since then, they've been running regular support groups for the bereaved - where people come together to eat/drink and mostly chat.

3 months ago

26 minutes 4 seconds

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Episode 64: Catherine Beer

Most of us who've not experienced death worry about what it's going to be like - whether that's our own death or that of our loved ones. Doulas can help take fear of the unknown away for people at the end of life - and their families. Catherine Beer joins us again to explain more here.

3 months ago

32 minutes 48 seconds

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Episode 63: Lee Wakeham

Lee Wakeham has a horrendous story to tell - of being abandoned by his mother aged two, of abuse during his first foster care placement, leading to years of offending and time in prison. So how did he turn his life around after such huge losses? He now runs successful pasty-making business - HMPasties - that employs ex-offenders and has been taken under the Co-op's wing via its incubator scheme - the Apiary.

4 months ago

33 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 62: Louise Dilllon

Louise Dillon's son died from an aggressive form of leukemia just after his 14th birthday. Her own experience of how difficult it was returning to work, prompted her to offer training to businesses on how best to support grieving employees and how to give the bereaved a voice in how they'd like things to go.

4 months ago

26 minutes 18 seconds

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Episode 61: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper got in touch after listening to episode 27 featuring his mother talking about the death of his father. He mentioned that he felt there had been unacknowledged grief underlying his childhood and how it has left him unsure if he 'does' grief well. We explore that together here.

5 months ago

24 minutes 49 seconds

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Episode 60: Pippa and Grace

Pippa and Grace were only 16 when their fathers died. They didn't know each other at the time but met through the counselling offered by Thames Hospice and have since become firm friends. Together they're passionate about raising money for the hospice so that others can receive the same care and help they value so highly.

5 months ago

28 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 59: Lord Kinnock

Baroness Glenys Kinnock and Lord Neil Kinnock were together for 60 years - the most high profile political couple of their generation. "It is like losing a limb" says Neil. "Glenys suffered and died of Alzheimer's in 2023 and the only real relief of Alzheimer's is that people slip away. They almost give you a rehearsal in loss. It does mean that you suffer a real death and years before that a sort of death."

6 months ago

33 minutes 34 seconds

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Episode 58: Toby Porter

NOT talking about death and dying is 'a profound act of societal self-harm' says Toby Porter CEO of HospiceUK. We mark Dying Matters Awareness Week by talking to him about why we don't talk about it more, about hospice care, assisted dying and the recent loss of his mother.

6 months ago

46 minutes 9 seconds

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Episode 57: Sally Lynch

For Easter week, we're talking to the Reverend Sally Lynch about the Christian Church's approach to death and dying and the significance of Easter in the Church of England.

7 months ago

32 minutes 42 seconds

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Episode 56: Lucy Potter

This is to mark Sudden Death Awareness Month in March. Lucy Potter's 2 year old son Gibson didn't wake up one morning. She bravely, and eloquently describes here the horror of trying to administer CPR, of accompanying him in an ambulance, and of willing him to live while watching in stunned disbelief as medics tried and failed to revive him.

8 months ago

44 minutes 5 seconds

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Episode 55: Ginny Daly

Ginny Daly had to experience the heart-breaking ordeal of giving birth to her baby boy knowing that he'd died in the womb. She talks openly of that nightmare, and how, years later, her mother's death exposed her to a completely different kind of grief.

8 months ago

48 minutes 26 seconds

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Episode 54: Fiona Duffy

Suicide is often described as cruel. This is not what our latest guest Fiona Duffy thinks. She describes here how her experience of suffering losses, including her brother to suicide, inspired her to go into the Funeral Care Business with the Co-op.

8 months ago

31 minutes 32 seconds

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Episode 53: Mark Shepherd

Mark Shepherd performs an extraordinary service for the parents of babies who are still born, or who die soon after birth. He visits them soon after their loss to take professional photos of their babies for a charity called RememberMyBaby. He tells us here how he got into this amazing work.

9 months ago

29 minutes 26 seconds