M Doherty: Deathbed Etiquette

01nov10:0010:30M Doherty: Deathbed Etiquette10:00 - 10:30(GMT+00:00) View in my timeEvent typePresentationTopicHealthcareSession ID: Session 1A

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(Monday) 10:00 - 10:30(GMT+00:00) View in my time

Event Details

Margaret Doherty: The Heart of Living & Dying

Dating back to the fifteenth century, the original handbook for the dying – the Ars Moriendi (the Art of Dying) – provided practical instructions on ‘proper bedside behaviour’ around the dying person.

This ‘proper bedside behaviour’ needed an update and the Centre for the Art of Dying Well – St Mary’s University has responded by creating a new Deathbed Etiquette. Designed to help friends and family who find themselves, very often unprepared, to be by the bedside of the person they love who is dying.

Speakers for this event

  • Margaret Doherty

    Margaret Doherty

    Margaret Doherty is the Director of Centre for the Art of Dying Well - St Mary’s University. She has a background in communications at a senior level and was the former press secretary to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. Margaret is also a trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and a governor at St Joseph’s independent preparatory school, Gravesend. Margaret is also a trustee of St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney and a governor at St Joseph’s independent preparatory school, Gravesend.

    URL http://www.artofdyingwell.org