Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of…
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How to plan and pay for your funeral in the UK
Get an idea of the cost A traditional send-off will cost an eye-watering £9,658 on average, according to the latest SunLife Cost of Dying report.…
View More How to plan and pay for your funeral in the UKDigital legacy: how to organise your online life for after you die
Making a will enables you to set out what will happen to your money, possessions and property when you die but, in the online era,…
View More Digital legacy: how to organise your online life for after you die‘Boil in the bag’ environmentally friendly funerals arrive in the UK
For anyone uneasy at the thought of their body being consumed by flames or interred in an insect-teeming grave, a new funeral choice is about…
View More ‘Boil in the bag’ environmentally friendly funerals arrive in the UKMourning rituals help people cope with grief, say scientists
The death of Queen Elizabeth II has plunged the royal household and much of the country into a period of mourning, with black armbands and…
View More Mourning rituals help people cope with grief, say scientistsCalls to end banks’ needless bureaucracy piling on the agony for the bereaved
Bereaved families are facing bureaucratic barriers, unsympathetic customer service staff and lengthy delays when trying to close the accounts of a deceased relative. The Cost…
View More Calls to end banks’ needless bureaucracy piling on the agony for the bereavedDoes life flash before your eyes? Brain scan of dying man suggests it’s possible
When Harry Stamper sets off a bomb to save planet Earth in the film Armageddon, his life flashes before his eyes. Now research has revealed…
View More Does life flash before your eyes? Brain scan of dying man suggests it’s possibleGrieving relatives despair at months of waiting for probate
When Penelope Ormerod appealed to the Observer for help, she wrote: “I am close to despair.” She had applied for probate on her late aunt’s…
View More Grieving relatives despair at months of waiting for probateWhat do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?
When Gregg Nome was 24 years old, he slipped into the churn beneath a waterfall and began to drown, his body pummelled against the sandy…
View More What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?Covid crisis prompts financial fears for those organising funerals
A third of people organising a funeral in the UK because of Covid-19 found meeting the costs caused them financial worries, according to the insurer…
View More Covid crisis prompts financial fears for those organising funerals