The End Matters CIC

The End Matters CIC Holistic End of Life Practitioner. Underpinned by
Compassion, Connection & Courage I also offer this service through group-based and organisational workshops.

As an End-of-Life Holistic Practitioner, I believe that we live in a society where natural death and dying have been medicalised, sanitised and kept at arm's length; and we appear to live in times where the thought of death can fill us with dread and anxiety. I feel passionately that we need to acknowledge fears, myths and misconceptions that create the avoidance of what is, after all, one of life

’s most innate and inevitable events. My working practice, under the title of “The End Matters”, covers three main areas and is underpinned by my core values of Compassion, Connection & Courage. As a Doula-in-training, my role is one of a non-medical, holistic companion who guides and supports the dying in order to facilitate a gentle, dignified and tranquil transition to death and beyond. Within “Last Orders, Please”, I offer advice, encouragement and support for individuals and families in order to enable them to ensure their wishes are clearly known as they enter the later and final stages of their lives. Through “Dead Good Conversations”, I facilitate intimate and safe workshops whereby authentic conversations can take place around the subjects of death and dying. These meetings provide a great opportunity to explore personal beliefs, while listening to the views of others. By exploring death and dying in greater detail, I believe we can grow more comfortable with our own mortality. These workshops are based on the international “Death Café” movement. Let’s take steps to become more death positive!

15/08/2026

We never know how much time we have, so use it wisely. 🙏

01/06/2026

Helpful and insightful information

14/02/2026

Poignant and beautiful.
Let this sit with you for a while 🙏

Delighted to be a part of this great initiative. At its heart, it’s everything we believe in and we’re looking forward t...
10/02/2026

Delighted to be a part of this great initiative. At its heart, it’s everything we believe in and we’re looking forward to connecting and collaborating 🙏😊

Gloria Furgusson (End of Life Dula) and Neil Campbell (Specialist Grief Guide and End of Life Planning Consultant) will guide you through this interactive workshop to equip you to plan for the future with more confidence.

We are delighted to be hosting an interesting and immersive Conference showcasing innovative work, sharing good practise...
26/01/2026

We are delighted to be hosting an interesting and immersive Conference showcasing innovative work, sharing good practise and networking opportunities for anyone working in the field of ageing well, palliative and end of life care.
If you'd like any further information please contact us directly and we would appreciate you sharing this with others.

11/12/2025

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross refused to let medicine hide its deepest wound: the fact that every cure has a limit. She sat at hospital bedsides long after rounds were done, listening to patients who were told to be “brave” rather than scared, “appropriate” rather than angry, “quiet” rather than grieving. In those moments she learned what textbooks excluded—that dying people want to be seen, not managed. Her approach broke a clinical wall. She made physicians acknowledge that the end of life is still life, with preferences, humor, unfinished conversations, and choices.

Hospitals once measured success by extending breath at any cost; she taught that dignity counts as much as pulse. Her interviews with terminal patients were radical because they reversed the hierarchy of power: the doctor did not speak for the patient, the patient spoke for the world. She faced backlash, misogyny dressed as academic skepticism, and accusations that her empathy made her “unscientific.” Yet her research strengthened end-of-life ethics, informed hospice legislation, and created space for families to ask real questions instead of waiting in hallways for euphemisms. Kübler-Ross didn’t glorify death; she de-terrorized it. She gave grief vocabulary and gave dying people authorship over their final pages.

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