40 episodes
The Art of Dying Well The Art of Dying Well
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4.9 • 11 Ratings
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Our podcast aims to make death and dying something we can talk about openly without discomfort or fear. Presented by James Abbott, our award-winning show features James in conversation with a guest on a key topic related to the Art of Dying Well, taking in everything from being at the bedside of a dying loved one, to receiving a terminal diagnosis. Coping with grief, bereavement, death, dying, and much more are all under discussion.
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Where there's a Will there's a way | Episode 40
On this episode of the Art of Dying Well podcast, we're breaking the taboo around end of life planning.Host James Abbott sits down with Matthew Hutton, the author of a very useful book called Your Last Gift - an accessible guide to getting your affairs in order.Matthew Hutton is a man who wears many professional hats – lawyer, one intimately acquainted with drawing up Wills and administering probate; tax adviser; estate planning expert; farmer (!) and Church of England minister.He shares his ...
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Back to Life | Second chances and spiritual awakening | Episode 39
The first Art of Dying Well podcast of 2024 looks at coma recovery, second chances and spiritual awakening.James Macintyre, a freelance journalist and biographer, describes his extraordinary near-death experience giving a first-hand account of the life-threatening pancreatitis he endured in May 2023 that led to a five-week coma and four-month hospitalisation.James was admitted to the intensive care unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in a critical condition. Doctors informed him that he ...
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How we remember the dead | A reflective tour of the beautiful London Oratory Church | Episode 38
Traditionally November is the month for remembering; for remembrance services; the lighting of candles; special prayers and the blessing of graves.In this special episode of the podcast, made in partnership with the Catholic Church in England and Wales, we offer an opportunity for reflection and remembrance in the company of Father George Bowen as he takes us on a tour of the beautiful London Oratory.And on Remembrance Sunday itself we pause to reflect on the armistice signed between the Alli...
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Still birth and Abigail's Footsteps | Baby Loss Awareness Week | Episode 37
In part two of our special episode in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK, our host James Abbott speaks to two wonderful people who took their own trauma and grief and did an incredible thing with it. They founded a charity to help people in the same painful position they were in – a position nobody wants to find themselves in - facing the death of a baby.Jo and David Ward went through the tragedy of the death of their daughter, Abigail, who was stillborn at 41 weeks, and they’re he...
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Grieving The Loss of a Child | Baby Loss Awareness Week | Episode 36
There can be few things more devastating than the death of a child. This incredibly emotive and difficult subject is the focus of this episode, which takes the form of two testimony-based podcasts. In part one we hear from Saskia Hogbin who tragically lost her baby, Josef, 28 weeks into her pregnancy. We are releasing this episode in Baby Loss Awareness Week in the UK (9th-15th October). Now in its 21st year, the week is an opportunity for everyone in the baby loss community and beyond t...
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Listen to me, I'm dying! | Episode 35
This episode has the rather provocative title Listen to me, I’m dying! But what do we mean by that? Find out as host James Abbott discusses with our guests how much of a say do we really have over what happens when we die? Will our wishes be respected? And what about those emergency situations in case we change our minds over what happens next? Just like birthing plans at the start of life, shouldn’t we all have a plan for how we exit this world so we can be as reconciled and at peace as poss...