Living with dying

About Living with dying

Living with dying is a podcast where we try to smash the taboos around death and dying and open up the subject. We'll all encounter death at some stage so why are we so shy of talking about it? I'm Dilys Morgan and when my husband Michael Barratt died last year I felt really lost. We'd been together 47 years and he was 19 years older than me - so I should have been prepared! But as I stumbled around trying to rebuild my lie, I felt there was so much to learn, and I wished he and I had spoken about it more. Join us here for some healthy chat around death and dying - and surviving a loss. Finalist in the 2024 BBC Make a Difference Awards

Publisher

Dilys Morgan

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Nov 2023

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

94 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Episode 94: Oliver Christen

   Oliver Christen talks very movingly about his book  As She Chose - about his mother's choice to end her life with a death fast - sometimes known as Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking.  So a trigger warning - as he calmly describes the way his mother came to this choice and how she achieved it with his support.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Episode 93: Russell Jackson

   Russell Jackson is the author of a book called There are No Words - a Bereaved Father's guide to Stillbirth and Neo Natal loss.  He writes from his own experience of losing his daughter Florence who was still born in 2022.

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Episode 92: Richard Coker

   Professor Richard Coker caused a bit of a stir over the airwaves and social media recently on publication of his book Timor Mortis - 'How We Live with Death' where he openly discusses how doctors have always been involved in Assisted Dying

Who has been a guest on Living with dying

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Louise Dillon
• Pippa
• Grace

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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