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What can we learn from what happened in Hull?
If you’ve not been following the dark events unfolding at a funeral directors in Hull, then I’m sorry that what follows makes for grim...

Nicola Banning
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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Unfinished clearing up
If you’ve not yet faced the task of clearing up after the death of someone you love, chances are that you will one day for it comes to us...

Nicola Banning
Sep 22, 20233 min read
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What matters in Dying Matters Awareness Week?
It’s often the case that however much we think we might know something we only really truly know it when it happens to us. And it was...

Nicola Banning
May 12, 20233 min read
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The coffin-free funeral
Over 20 years ago, I remember a couple telling me enthusiastically about how they’d been to a really good funeral. Curious, I asked them...

Nicola Banning
May 2, 20233 min read
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Nice and simple
‘No fuss darling. Nice and simple.’ That was my dad’s request as we sat one November evening with a glass of wine by the fire as I took...

Nicola Banning
Apr 12, 20232 min read
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A place for children
I was 18 when I attended my first funeral for a friend killed in a car accident. While his death wasn’t the first that I’d experienced it...

Nicola Banning
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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