ArticleMortality (Abingdon, England)2024
Talking about death and dying: Findings from deliberative discussion groups with members of the public.
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- Setting research priorities for palliative and end-of-life care: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership Refresh.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Youth awareness on death and dying in school settings: A scoping review on knowledge and practices.Palliative care and social practice · 2026Review
- Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration.The British journal of sociology · 2025Article
- Adopting the lens of the COM-B behaviour change model to qualitatively explore and understand public health implications of young adults' attitudes towards death-talk.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Perceptions of Good Death and Death Literacy Levels of Nurses Working in Palliative Care: A Cross-Sectional Study.International nursing review · 2025Article
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- Middle-aged and older adults in Aids village: a mixed methods study on talking about death and well-being promotion based on social support theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Public perceptions of advance care planning (ACP) from an international perspective: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2023Article
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Abstract
Talking about death and dying is promoted in UK health policy and practice, from a perception that to do so encourages people to plan for their end of life and so increase their likelihood of experiencing a good death. This encouragement occurs alongside a belief that members of the public are reluctant to talk about death, although surveys suggest this is not the case. This paper describes findings from a research study in which people participated in deliberative discussion groups during which they talked about a range of topics related to death, including talking about death, the good death, choice and planning and compassionate communities. Here we report what they had to say in relation to talking about death and dying. We identified three themes: 1. The difference between talking about death as an abstract concept and confronting the certainty of death, 2. how death and dying presents issues for planning and responsibility, and 3. approaches to normalising death within society. For our participants, planning was considered most appropriate in relation to wills and funerals, while dying was considered too unpredictable to be easy to plan for; they had complex ideas about the value of talking about death and dying.
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