Being Mortal

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Celebrating life; acknowledging, talking about and planning for death

Being Mortal is a campaign which encourages us all to celebrate life and acknowledge, talk about and plan for death, dying and grieving.

Talking about and planning for these natural life processes helps to reduce fear, promotes wellbeing and gives us agency over our own story. It empowers us to engage, over time, in end-of-life decision-making which fully reflects what matters to us as individuals.

Supporting human flourishing

Being Mortal shines a light on the natural processes of life, death, dying and grieving which we all experience in different ways. Developments in medicine have changed the way we die. To live and die well, we need to learn to acknowledge, discuss and plan for death, dying and grieving. We aim to support people in the final stages of their lives, those who care for them and those who mourn their loss. We seek to support individuals, at whatever stage of life, to remain the authors of their own story. The short video below explains more about our work.

Our values

All human beings should be regarded as equally valuable persons, without qualification, for as long as we live.
All persons, in life and in death, have the right to be respected and treated fairly and with kindness by others.
Personhood carries with it the right to make decisions about our own lives, whatever point of life's path we are at.
Personhood carries the responsibility to be the best possible version of ourselves, which includes caring for others.

Working together

We seek to collaborate with individuals and organisations to develop ways of supporting people to live and die well.

The initiatives we create together should diminish fear and help people to have a greater sense of agency in their own death, dying and grieving.

Please do email us if you are interested in joining an event or collaborating.

Learn more in our latest

Blog

Our new resources

We have just published a new booklet designed to help people start conversations around death, dying and loss. We also have a resource focused on the DAY OF THE DEAD.

We have published a set of GRIEF CARDS, which focus on talking about grief.

Please click the images to download a copy of these resources.