The End Matters CIC

14/02/2026

Poignant and beautiful.
Let this sit with you for a while 🙏

10/02/2026

Delighted to be a part of this great initiative. At its heart, it’s everything we believe in and we’re looking forward to connecting and collaborating 🙏😊

Gloria Furgusson (End of Life Dula) and Neil Campbell (Specialist Grief Guide and End of Life Planning Consultant) will guide you through this interactive workshop to equip you to plan for the future with more confidence.

26/01/2026

We are delighted to be hosting an interesting and immersive Conference showcasing innovative work, sharing good practise and networking opportunities for anyone working in the field of ageing well, palliative and end of life care.
If you'd like any further information please contact us directly and we would appreciate you sharing this with others.

11/12/2025

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross refused to let medicine hide its deepest wound: the fact that every cure has a limit. She sat at hospital bedsides long after rounds were done, listening to patients who were told to be “brave” rather than scared, “appropriate” rather than angry, “quiet” rather than grieving. In those moments she learned what textbooks excluded—that dying people want to be seen, not managed. Her approach broke a clinical wall. She made physicians acknowledge that the end of life is still life, with preferences, humor, unfinished conversations, and choices.

Hospitals once measured success by extending breath at any cost; she taught that dignity counts as much as pulse. Her interviews with terminal patients were radical because they reversed the hierarchy of power: the doctor did not speak for the patient, the patient spoke for the world. She faced backlash, misogyny dressed as academic skepticism, and accusations that her empathy made her “unscientific.” Yet her research strengthened end-of-life ethics, informed hospice legislation, and created space for families to ask real questions instead of waiting in hallways for euphemisms. Kübler-Ross didn’t glorify death; she de-terrorized it. She gave grief vocabulary and gave dying people authorship over their final pages.

25/10/2025

💔❤️

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ag1unuR6w/?mibextid=wwXIfr

There are so many things I have discovered since I had to go.
And I want to share this one with you - I want to let you in on the secret.

You see, I know you feel a sudden pull of emotions sometimes. Those moments when you lose composure and losing me hits you afresh all over again. And it might be at seemingly trivial, inconsequential times like when you’re brushing your teeth or getting into the car for work. Or at 2.30pm on any given Wednesday.

And you won’t really know why but you will suddenly remember me. Not that you’ll have forgotten me, but that I am - in that moment - all you can think about.
Overwhelmingly so.

Well, here’s the secret; that’s because of our heartstrings.
We are connected to everyone we love by invisible, unbreakable threads. And when one of us misses the other person, we only need to pull on those heartstrings to bring them a little closer to us.

Sometimes it hurts. Sometimes we grab desperately at the thread like a life buoy in a storm and our string is pulled so abruptly that it burns.
But it never breaks.

And I just wanted you to know this. So that you can be comforted by knowing that, in the moments when you suddenly miss me the most…
It’s because I am missing you too.

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Becky Hemsley 2023
Artwork by Amanda Cass

‘Heartstrings’ is from When I am Gone: https://amzn.to/4osFgPZ
(affiliate link)

27/08/2025

This Grief Ritual will be a very special event to explore and release grief in community.

Sun 12th Oct 2025, 9:30am – 9pm BST (UTC +01:00)

24/08/2025

Well I found this interesting. How well do you know the meaning of some of these words ?

22/08/2025

Says it all ❤️

22/08/2025

Lots to learn from this.

18/08/2025

Grief has no predetermined pathway or meaningful timeline and will take compassion and courage to navigate the journey. 😞