As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people about death. Last week, I wrote a guest blog for the lovely ladies at Death and the Maiden. Blog post link here. Meanwhile I have also been polishing my interviewing skills to capture fun death stories, more of which will be going on at "Living Well, Dying Well", the Dying for Life event on 11th May 2019, kicking off our season this year. K

This month I have been to a number of Death Awareness events: From Selfies to Runes, how do we want to be remembered? Face to Face with Medieval Cambridge (which had some wonderful re-enactors, one in full leprosy makeup!) and Living Well, Dying Well, (the latter organised through the wonderful - though I may be biased as I helped set it up) Dying for Life! All these events were at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 2018. Each of these events many new thoughts, conversations, e