Julia Huber
Researcher
Julia joined Demos as a researcher in June 2002. Her main research interests are in the area of demography, social change and learning. She is leading Demos' work on the ageing society and her Demos publications in this area include; together with Paul Skidmore The New Old: Why the baby boomers won't be pensioned off (2003); and together with James Harkin Eternal Youths: How the baby boomers are having their time...
at 12:57pm
on Thursday, 12th January 2006
In response to the setting up of the cross-party Dying Well group, which will focus on the improved provision and equal distribution of end-of-life care, I have written a comment piece for the Guardian arguing that as long as we don't talk more openly about death and dying it is impossible for us to enable a good death. In order for us to be able to articulate our specific needs when we die and make positive choices about how we do so, we need to feel comfortable talking about death more generally throughout our lives. This proposition is at the heart of a Demos project we are currently developing and which aims to generate a more open and honest debate about death and dying and what a good death might mean for all of us.
In response to the setting up of the cross-party Dying Well group, which will focus on the improved provision and equal distribution of end-of-life care, I have written a comment piece for the Guardian arguing that as long as we don't talk more openly about death and dying it is impossible for us to enable a good death. In order for us to be able to articulate our specific needs when we die and make positive choices about how we do so, we need to feel comfortable talking about death more generally throughout our lives. This proposition is at the heart of a Demos project we are currently developing and which aims to generate a more open and honest debate about death and dying and what a good death might mean for all of us.
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