Dying Matters Awareness week
6-12 May 2024
In Dying Matters Awareness week 2024, communities from across the UK will come together to talk about the language we use and the conversations we have around death, dying and grief.
In the Department of Health Sciences, we have been collaborating with local specialist palliative care nurses to organise two events to which students, staff and members of the public are warmly invited to attend.
Tuesday 7 May
On Tuesday 7 May, 12.15-13.00 you are invited to ‘ask a palliative care nurse anything’. This session is an opportunity to meet local palliative care nurse specialists and ask questions you have that relate to their role, such as:
- What is palliative care?
- What matters to people at the end of life?
- Who provides support to people who are dying?
- What happens as someone dies?
- What drew them to specialise in this area of nursing?
- Why does it matter that we talk about death, dying and grief?
You can ask questions in-person, or via an app that will be introduced to you at the beginning of the session.
Places for this event are limited, so please book early via the Google form. Further details of venues will be sent following the booking.
Wednesday 8 May
On Wednesday 8 May, 16:30-18:00 we will be holding a ‘Death Café’. A Death Cafe is a place where people come together to meet with others who think talking about death is interesting and valuable, to drink tea and to eat cake!
A Death Cafe is an opportunity for discussion about any aspects of life that relate to death (rather than grief support or counselling) and all Death Cafe’s are different as discussions vary depending on who attends. This Death Cafe will be co-hosted by the Department of Health Sciences and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.
You can learn more about Death Cafes by looking at the website set up by the founder, Jon Underwood.
Places for this event are limited, so please book early via the Google form. Further details of venues will be sent following the booking.
More information
Please contact beth.hardy@york.ac.uk or Jane.Milsom@york.ac.uk with any questions.