Dying Matters Week with Dr. Kathryn Mannix

**Trigger Warning**

Naman Julka-Anderson and Jo McNamara catch up with Dr. Kathryn Mannix as part of Dying Matters week for aiscussion around death and dying.

 

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1) Reflect upon your conversations with friends, family and patients about death and dying. Use the podcast to consider how you could develop these conversations further. 

2) Investigate what local support services are available for patients and their family to access support with death and dying. 

3) Read the resources and literature posted alongside this podcast and reflect upon the changes you can make to your own practice. 

4) Have a conversation with a friend or family member about death and dying and your own wishes. Consider writing a will or testament so others know your wishes when the time comes.

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Links from podcast:

With the End in Mind: https://bit.ly/3kA2bdx and also Listen here
With the End in Mind Website: www.withtheendinmind.co.uk

Hospice UK: https://hukstage-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2021-08/No_3%20-%20Let%27s%20talk%20about%20dying_single%20pages.pdf

https://hukstage-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2021-08/No_1%20-%20Things%20to%20do%20before%20you%20die_single%20pages.pdf

Marie Curie:

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/research/end-of-life-experience-report-commissioning-brief

https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/policy/better-end-life-report

Dying matters awareness week:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNKmMVPpMg

Shlobin NA, Aru J, Vicente R, Zemmar A. What happens in the brain when we die? Deciphering the neurophysiology of the final moments in life. Front Aging Neurosci. 2023 May 9;15:1143848. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1143848. PMID: 37228251; PMCID: PMC10203241. 

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2023.1143848/full
Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_mannix_what_happens_as_we_die_feb_2023?hasProgress=true&language=en

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