Stories from: Arnos Vale, Bristol

As a teacher I was reading Charlotte’s web and I got upset as it reminded me of my son who

My story is about my daughter Charlotte. When I was 20 weeks pregnant we found out she had Patau’s Syndrome.

My friend and father of our children died this year. He always said he wanted to go up in a

In the nursing home at the end the staff convinced me death would be terrifying and dad would have the

When my 4 year old niece asked my mum if she was going to die my mum said ‘of course

When my dad’s mum died of TB he was 2. His father burnt all photos of her and never spoke

When my dad died in 2017 I realised how much I hated the death language about ‘loss’. I didn’t ‘lose’

My grandad was very controlling of everything but especially his long suffering wife. At her wake, my mother was able

I’ve never forgotten being told that ‘nana’ (the person who everyone tells me taught me to read) had died. I’d

Listening to you this evening reminded me of attending my paternal grandfather’s funeral in Southampton, circa 1985. He was firstly

I was a mid-wife. When washing and dressing a baby who had died, I always ask the parents if it

My brother-in-law died in February from Melanoma. He was in too much pain. The wonderful hospice said he could go

I’m going out to Widor’s Toccata – I would have gone out to that if I had got married but

My father lost half his weight in the last few years of his life, so when he finally died and

My father spent most of his final months at home but had a place in a hospice. On the Monday

My mum, brother and cousin were at our family home, my dad was in hospital dying of cancer. My cousin

My partner died of brain cancer. We hadn’t been together long and I knew about it from the beginning. When

When my grandad was dying from pneumonia he was in a coma but thrashing around and trying to pull out

My father died very suddenly of a fatal heart attack during half time of what I understand to have been