30 September 2026
Yasin was recited in Roblox
After Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali died on Monday, aged 100, a Yasin recitation appeared in Roblox. The avatars had an emcee.
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29 September 2026
The family funded the work first
Friends and family of Daisy Catterall have raised more than £85,000 for research into the rare immune disease that killed her. This week the scientist they have been funding was awarded a Royal Society fellowship of £670,000.
28 September 2026
The ground would not take the cone
On Wednesday Fairfax County dedicated Circles of Memory outside the Herrity Building. The 27-foot concrete cone chosen in 2023 is not what stands there.
27 September 2026
There is a Bluetooth jukebox on the grave
A marble memorial to Michael Collins has gone up at Shiregreen Cemetery in Sheffield, with a Bluetooth jukebox set into the stone. The council says it was erected before anyone signed it off.
26 September 2026
Hélio Neto went up the hill again
Ten years after the plane ran out of fuel on the way to a cup final in Medellín, Chapecoense walked back up Cerro Gordo. This afternoon they play in the stadium the 2016 side never reached.
25 September 2026
The heart was made in Axminster
After a death in the emergency department at St Peter's in Chertsey, families leave with forget-me-not seeds and a crochet heart made in Devon. The nurses who pack them have been shortlisted for a national award.
24 September 2026
The word at the bottom of the letter
Steve Hyde thought hospice meant the end. On Friday he jumps with his daughter for the Nuneaton hospice that has been coming to the house.
23 September 2026
You could take Tuesday to book the funeral
From April 2027, employees in Great Britain get two unpaid weeks to grieve.
19 September 2026
She apologised for the grass on the carpet
An aircraft handler remembered the Queen apologising for grass on a helicopter carpet. This week the Cabinet Office asked the public to add memories to a digital memorial that already holds her official diary.
18 September 2026
They still call him Peach
Next month 55 people from Kiltimagh and the towns around it will run the Dublin marathon for Shane Freeman. For his last 11 weeks, Mayo Hospice made it possible for him to keep living.
17 September 2026
The willow outside her room
Dave Barron looks after a courtyard willow at East Cheshire Hospice, outside the bedroom where his wife Catherine died. He and his brother now volunteer in the gardens.
16 September 2026
She never missed a chance to party
Chris Maloney is putting a nineteen-piece band into Norwich’s Assembly House on 26 September, in memory of Les, who loved to dance. The money goes to the charity that sits beside the NHS hospice that cared for her.
15 September 2026
Someone at the end of the phone
When Phillip Hayes came home from Evora Hospice to die, Joanne could still ring a nurse after ten. Next month she will walk six kilometres at midnight with his name on a bib.
14 September 2026
There was nowhere to put a name
Janie Vallance used to visit the National Memorial Arboretum and find no stone for military suicide. On Sunday the first one was dedicated.
13 September 2026
They asked for a kindness, not a donation
Jonni Manson would have been forty on Saturday. His family put a memorial website up for a limited time, and asked for stories and small kindnesses rather than flowers.
11 September 2026
They filled the coffin with his things
Ron Fazio’s family had no remains to bury. Twenty-five years on, the names are still read at Ground Zero, a seventh silence was added for later deaths, and his son has opened a grief chatbot that will not speak as him.
11 September 2026
They start with a mouse
English primary schools must now teach that grief is a natural response to bereavement. Child Bereavement UK’s youngest lessons begin with a picture book about a dead pet.
10 September 2026
The dresses were still there
After Tracey Palmer died at St Teresa’s Hospice, her family sold the pre-loved clothes from her online shop. A Catterick village hall raised almost £2,000.
9 September 2026
They wanted to bury him near home
Fifteen years ago Hina Bokhari struggled to bury her father near their Merton home. This week the Lords consider whether councils must plan for graves.
8 September 2026
She was happy to be here
Pauline O’Neill’s mother settled as soon as she reached the Macmillan Unit in Antrim. This week an all-island campaign is trying to tell people that palliative care is not only the last days.
7 September 2026
The care plan in his pocket
An older man carried his paper care plan so staff would not treat him against his wishes. More than half the nurses in a Marie Curie poll have given end-of-life care in a corridor.
6 September 2026
The bench that looks like an open book
Julia Stafford painted 391 names onto a book-shaped bench for St Oswald’s Hospice. It sits in Newcastle Cathedral until Monday 14 September, then it goes to Gosforth.
5 September 2026
You feel intertwined with the hospice
Tania Rahman’s family will walk Raphael Park on Sunday for Saint Francis Hospice, in memory of Dr Muhammad Rahman. They already remember him all the time.
4 September 2026
The things a will never mentions
On Monday a week of films asks how you would like to be remembered. The solicitor still will not write down the haircut.