Theos’s report Love, Grief, and Hope: Emotional responses to death and dying in the UK features in GB News. 27/11/2023

The report from Theos found that financial pressures and fleeting religious beliefs were causing a “growing number of Britons [to] dispense with funeral rites altogether”.

The findings of the report were preceded by a foreword by Most Rev Justin Welby, who said he was shocked by the results. Referring to the death of his mother, he said: “People around us are increasingly sheltered from the physical reality of death, they know less and less about how they will die and how to cope with loss.”

Love, Grief, and Hope: Emotional responses to death and dying in the UK, published earlier today, examines emotional responses to death and dying in the UK, presenting the findings of a nationally representative poll commissioned by Theos and conducted by YouGov.

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