UK Death
British photographer Rankin and mutual insurer Royal London tackle the taboos surrounding death in new digital project 'Lost for Words', the exhibition is available to see for free online.
The day my dad died, the manager of the high street shop I worked in phoned me up, sheepishly telling me she expected me back the next day.
To all the people who can’t be bothered to wear a mask, you want to scream, ‘I am trying to keep my baby alive! Please just let me keep my baby alive!’"
Daniel Mee, 25, and Jayson Dolman, 20, were in Alicante, Spain, when they died in July last year.
"What do you mean she's breathing?" the woman's stunned mother asked officials, hours after she was told her daughter had died.
The latest figures were published on Sunday.
Alongside a time lag in reporting deaths and inadequate testing, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that ‘out of sight is out of mind’, writes Caroline Abrahams.
I am 82 years old with underlying health conditions and I feel a sense of calm and control in the face of coronavirus because I have planned for my death, author Diana Melly writes.
We cannot reverse the irreversible, but we can make it free of pain and loneliness, writes Sarah Simons.
More than 337,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed nationwide, and over 1.2 million have been reported globally.