Death

Teaching five-year-olds about grief isn’t morbid – it’s necessary
Rowan Humphries-Massey

Teaching five-year-olds about grief isn’t morbid – it’s necessary

New RSE guidance makes grief part of the curriculum. An expert explains why teaching loss early matters for children growing up in uncertain times

Help with funeral costs: Know your options
Funeral poverty

Help with funeral costs: Know your options

If you need help with funeral costs, you might qualify for the DWP funeral grant or through charities to support you during a difficult time

‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
Assisted dying

‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate

In a passionate and emotionally-charged debate in the House of Commons, MPs on opposing sides discussed whether the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill should move forward to the next parliamentary stage – which could lead to a change in the law to allow assisted dying

‘Where’s the compassion?’: Council refuses to give 11-year-old boy his father’s ashes after funeral
Funeral poverty

‘Where’s the compassion?’: Council refuses to give 11-year-old boy his father’s ashes after funeral

How Mexico’s women hijacked Día de los Muertos to remember the missing and the murdered
Activism

How Mexico’s women hijacked Día de los Muertos to remember the missing and the murdered

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Countdown star Susie Dent: Why ‘willanthropy’ is my new favourite word
Susie Dent

Countdown star Susie Dent: Why ‘willanthropy’ is my new favourite word

We don’t know how much time we have. So let’s be sure to use it well
Paul McNamee

We don’t know how much time we have. So let’s be sure to use it well

UK is ‘failing’ children as death rates rise, poverty surges and health declines at ‘alarming’ rate
Child poverty

UK is ‘failing’ children as death rates rise, poverty surges and health declines at ‘alarming’ rate

‘A national scandal’: Nearly 5,000 deaths caused by cold and damp homes last winter
Housing

‘A national scandal’: Nearly 5,000 deaths caused by cold and damp homes last winter

How people are celebrating life and confronting a universal truth by attending their own funeral
Life

How people are celebrating life and confronting a universal truth by attending their own funeral

Succession shows grief is complicated. Here’s how to get help if you’re dealing with a complex loss
advice

Succession shows grief is complicated. Here’s how to get help if you’re dealing with a complex loss

My Dad is gone, but our shared love of books remains
In memoriam

My Dad is gone, but our shared love of books remains

Everyone is afraid of poverty, so why haven’t we declared war on it?
John Bird

Everyone is afraid of poverty, so why haven’t we declared war on it?

Organ donation: The light within the darkness
Health

Organ donation: The light within the darkness