Let’s Discuss Death
Let’s Discuss Death is dedicated to encouraging open conversations about death, bereavement, and grief.
Through cultural events, education, and workshops, we aim to create a societal shift where mortality is acknowledged and discussed with confidence and comfort.
There are only two days with fewer than 24 hours in each lifetime, sitting like bookends astride our lives: one is celebrated every year yet it is the other that makes us see living as precious.
Dr Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care consultant, wrote in her book
With The End In Mind
Explore what we offer
Death and grief have been taboo topics for a long time. We offer workshops for people of all ages on a wide range of topics including
Let's Discuss Death: Breaking the Silence
Creating safe spaces for open dialogue on death and dying
Your Funeral, Your Way
Exploring funeral options, personal rituals,
green burials, etc.
What Matters Most: A Family Discussion
Facilitating intergenerational conversations
about values, care, and wishes
According to research by Child Bereavement UK, one in 29 children will be bereaved of a parent or sibling before they turn 16. This works out as about one child in every class.
From 2026, new government guidance says that schools must teach “that change and loss, including bereavement, can provoke a range of feelings, that grief is a natural response to bereavement, and that everyone grieves differently”
We can support you - whatever educational setting you are working in - with teacher training or the development of an effective bereavement policy for your school or college.
We can also help develop teaching resources to cover these topics with children.
This festival, London’s celebration of the Mexican Day of the Dead, now in its 9th year, takes place on Columbia Road in Tower Hamlets.
This year, for the first time, the festival is being extended over different days and locations in Tower Hamlets, to explore more aspects of end of life, death and bereavement.
More details to come soon!