Welcome to PUSHING UP DAISIES Todmorden
Pushing Up Daisies enables community-led conversations around death, dying and bereavement. Following on from annual festivals that ran from 2015-2019, PUD was relaunched in 2023 with a new and evolving programme of regular events. You can see what is happening below or on our What's Coming Up page.
We depend on you - the community - to share your ideas for events you would like to arrange or see happen. Please email us anytime at pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com
We depend on you - the community - to share your ideas for events you would like to arrange or see happen. Please email us anytime at pushingupdaisiestod@gmail.com
forthcoming events
PUD Monthly April 2024
Why are we so afraid of the D word?
Monday April 22, 7 - 9 pm
The Golden Lion (Upstairs), Todmorden OL14 6LZ
We know that many people say they would rather not die in hospital yet that is where many of us will spend our final moments. We also know that not every medical professional we or our loved ones will encounter may be wholly comfortable with one of their patients dying whilst in their care and may not be able to talk clearly about what is happening.
Our recent event hearing from death doulas was very thought-provoking and we decided it would be wonderful to hear from some medical professionals who have experience with death and dying in medical settings to share their insights, research, learnings and perspectives and try to answer your questions.
We are delighted to welcome Laura Green and Nicky King to help enlighten us. We will hear from them individually then open up to Q&A and a group discussion. Topics will include but are not limited to:
Biographies
Laura Green
Laura Green is senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Manchester, teaching palliative and end of life care at pre-registration and Masters level programmes. She is Programme Director for the Bachelors of Nursing. Prior to lecturing, she worked in palliative care nursing in the community and hospice settings across Bradford, and as a Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in palliative care. She has a number of books and papers on palliative care, including collaborative palliative care, end of life care in dementia, and the impact of using archaeological case studies on attitudes, values and beliefs of health professionals around death, dying and grief. Laura’s doctoral research was an ethnography of dying older people in an acute hospital ward in the UK. She blogs at www.lmiddletongreen.wordpress.com and tweets as @heblau. She also works as a birth doula.
Nicky King
Nicky King qualified as a doctor from Sheffield University in 1985. Palliative Care was an emerging specialty and most palliative care doctors were GPs, with no specialty training available. So she became a GP and worked in general practice until she was asked to be the medical director at a children's hospice opening in Kent. Nicky combined this with sessional work at an adult hospice, and moved to be Medical Director there for a while until becoming Medical Director at a palliative care service that covered adults and children, as inpatients, outpatients, at home and in hospital.
For the final part of Nicky's career before retiring in 2022 she moved to Leeds and worked as a Medicolegal Consultant for a medical defence organisation, supporting doctors with Medicolegal issues, including being witnesses at inquests. She has extensive experience in many aspects of death from a medical standpoint.
Why are we so afraid of the D word?
Monday April 22, 7 - 9 pm
The Golden Lion (Upstairs), Todmorden OL14 6LZ
We know that many people say they would rather not die in hospital yet that is where many of us will spend our final moments. We also know that not every medical professional we or our loved ones will encounter may be wholly comfortable with one of their patients dying whilst in their care and may not be able to talk clearly about what is happening.
Our recent event hearing from death doulas was very thought-provoking and we decided it would be wonderful to hear from some medical professionals who have experience with death and dying in medical settings to share their insights, research, learnings and perspectives and try to answer your questions.
We are delighted to welcome Laura Green and Nicky King to help enlighten us. We will hear from them individually then open up to Q&A and a group discussion. Topics will include but are not limited to:
- Doctors' own fear of death can get in the way of honesty with patients and themselves
- Over treatment at the end of life
- Have we become a death-defying and/or death-denying society?
- Can medical professionals harness their vulnerability to provide better and more honest care at end of life?
- Palliative care: what can be done? Are there limits?
- What goes wrong when a death is viewed as a "failure"?
- Medical hubris, over-treatment and under-communication
- Dealing with death anxiety in children and the elderly, and the people that care for them
Biographies
Laura Green
Laura Green is senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Manchester, teaching palliative and end of life care at pre-registration and Masters level programmes. She is Programme Director for the Bachelors of Nursing. Prior to lecturing, she worked in palliative care nursing in the community and hospice settings across Bradford, and as a Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in palliative care. She has a number of books and papers on palliative care, including collaborative palliative care, end of life care in dementia, and the impact of using archaeological case studies on attitudes, values and beliefs of health professionals around death, dying and grief. Laura’s doctoral research was an ethnography of dying older people in an acute hospital ward in the UK. She blogs at www.lmiddletongreen.wordpress.com and tweets as @heblau. She also works as a birth doula.
Nicky King
Nicky King qualified as a doctor from Sheffield University in 1985. Palliative Care was an emerging specialty and most palliative care doctors were GPs, with no specialty training available. So she became a GP and worked in general practice until she was asked to be the medical director at a children's hospice opening in Kent. Nicky combined this with sessional work at an adult hospice, and moved to be Medical Director there for a while until becoming Medical Director at a palliative care service that covered adults and children, as inpatients, outpatients, at home and in hospital.
For the final part of Nicky's career before retiring in 2022 she moved to Leeds and worked as a Medicolegal Consultant for a medical defence organisation, supporting doctors with Medicolegal issues, including being witnesses at inquests. She has extensive experience in many aspects of death from a medical standpoint.
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We look forward to seeing you on the 22nd. Please consider emailing us to let us know you will be coming, It
helps to have an idea of numbers though feel free to attend if you have not let us know!
Venue in Todmorden to be confirmed soon...
We look forward to seeing you on the 22nd. Please consider emailing us to let us know you will be coming, It
helps to have an idea of numbers though feel free to attend if you have not let us know!
Venue in Todmorden to be confirmed soon...