This new season is all about talking openly with people with a learning disability, autistic people and family carers about death and dying, the feelings we have when someone we love dies and how we can help people to feel more comfortable talking about these topics.

In this episode we meet Gavin Barr, Linda Dickinson and Fiona Regan who are members of Inclusion North’s Stop People Dying Too Young Group. They are joined by Davina Radford from St Oswald's Hospice and Dorothy Matthews a Learning Disability Nurse.

They talk about what makes a good life. They also discuss what it means to have a good death. It is discussed how that is different for everybody. They discuss different ideas of what happens when we die

Visit the Inclusion North website: https://inclusionnorth.org/ Find our more about My Ordinary Life podcast https://inclusionnorth.org/our_work/my-ordinary-life-podcast/ Find out more about the Stop People Dying Too Young Group here. https://inclusionnorth.org/our_work/stop-people-dying-too-young-the-leder-programme/ Visit the Death Cafe website https://deathcafe.com/

Deciding right and End of life planning documents https://northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk/deciding-right/deciding-right-resources/

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