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Let’s resurrect the art of celebrating death

Let’s resurrect the art of celebrating death

Theos’s report Love, Grief, and Hope: Emotional responses to death and dying in the UK features in The Times. 28/11/2023

“What are you going to do when you die? I occasionally plan my funeral”, writes Alice Thomson from The Times. 

Many who want to avoid a funeral are, I suspect, lonely. They have outlived most contemporaries or lost contact with friends and colleagues, their family has dwindled, they may have no close relatives and they think no one in the community would come to their wake.

Love, Grief, and Hope: Emotional responses to death and dying in the UKpublished 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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Madeleine Pennington

Madeleine Pennington

Madeleine is Head of Research at Theos. She holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford, and previously worked as a research scholar at a retreat and education centre in Philadelphia. She is the author of ‘The Christian Quaker: George Keith and the Keithian Controversy’ (Brill: 2019), ‘Quakers, Christ and the Enlightenment’ (OUP, 2021), and various Theos reports.

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Posted 28 November 2023

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