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Dying Matters Week 2022

May 2, 2022

Every year, Hospice UK’s Dying Matters Week encourages people in all walks of life to open a conversation about death, dying, and bereavement. In light of the huge pressures that end-of-life and hospice care services have faced and continue to face after the pandemic, the 2022 theme is #InAGoodPlace – what should it mean to […]

Good Grief at the Cambridge Festival

April 7, 2022

Covid has brought bereavement to the fore, raising questions about how a society confronts grief on such a huge scale. In this discussion, Professor Stephen Barclay, GP Dr Dan Knights and grief podcaster Amber Jeffrey will talk about the impact of bereavement on society at large and changing attitudes to how the medical profession should […]

Dying Matters Week 2021

May 11, 2021

Dying Matters week is a chance for organisations, individuals and partners to come together to open up the conversation around dying, death and bereavement. This year we’re privileged to be partnering with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, joining their Living Well service for a creative writing workshop ‘A Conversation with Death‘. The 2021 Dying Matters Week […]

An Everyday Family Practice

March 27, 2021

An Everyday Family Practice is a short play written by Patrick Morris, Co-Artistic Director of Menagerie Theatre Company and premiered at the Cambridge Festival 2021. This touching, darkly humorous and at times challenging drama explores the impact on a family of a diagnosis of terminal illness. A Good Death? and Menagerie Theatre present: An Everyday […]
Extreme Unction, by Nicolas Poussin

Extreme Unction, by Nicolas Poussin

Life and death drama in the age of COVID

September 8, 2020

Image copyright Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Reproduced by permission. Extreme Unction. Poussin, Nicolas (French, 1594-1665). The coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of us to come face to face with death in ways that we never imagined. Whether we’ve experienced personal losses, attended virtual funerals, or watched death tolls creeping up on the news, we are all […]

Naked Reflections: What makes a good death?

February 7, 2020

If you missed the Good Death team in person this Autumn, you can catch Laura Davies in conversation with Ed Kessler and guests on the latest episode of the Naked Reflections podcast.

Deathly Encounters!

November 2, 2019

A lively encounter with death and death culture at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology!

Let’s start a conversation:
What is a good death?

July 19, 2019

Fun in the Cambridge Central Library with the Good Death team!

What is a Good Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Dying Well

January 10, 2019

This conference brings together researchers from across disciplines in order to place historical conceptions and representations of a ‘good death’ in dialogue with contemporary thinking.

What is a good death in the 21st century?

January 10, 2019

This roundtable event brings together speakers whose professional interests in the matter of dying well take very different forms - philosophical to practical, spiritual to biological.