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 UK, published 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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