Dying Matters Week 2025

What is Dying Matters?

NI Hospice is proud to support Dying Matters Awareness Week, a national campaign run by Hospice UK that aims to create an open culture in which we're all comfortable talking about death, dying and grief.

This year’s theme – “The Culture of Dying Matters” – invites us to reflect on how different communities and cultures in the UK approach the end of life. While beliefs and customs may vary, our emotional experience of loss is something we all share.

Grief touches everyone. Though we may talk about it in different ways, the feelings of sadness, love, and longing are deeply human. This week is about recognising both the differences and the common threads that connect us when we face death.

At Northern Ireland Hospice, we believe in normalising these conversations so that everyone feels better equipped to support themselves and others during life’s most difficult times.

 

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Introducing Our 2025 Video Series

To help start these important conversations, NI Hospice is proud to present a short video series featuring members of our Team.

In our first video, Social Worker Julieanne Conlon explores this year’s theme.  She reflects on the many ways people understand and respond to death, and reminds us that there are no right or wrong answers – just shared human experience.

 

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Margaret Isaac, Social Worker


Margaret shares what the culture of death and dying means to her — honouring the lives of those we’ve lost, continuing bonds through grief, and learning how to live alongside loss.

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Jackie Whyte, Chaplain


Jackie tells the story of a meaningful funeral ritual in the Salvation Army tradition, where grief and joy come together in a moment of sacred farewell and celebration.

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Dr Matt Dore


Matt recounts an early experience with death that shaped his understanding of care at the end of life, and explores how we can learn just as much from dying as we do from living.

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Want to learn more about Dying Matters Week and how you can be part of it? Click here. 

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