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Major changes in bereavement care have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people, according to new research from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge.

COVID-19 has forced millions of people to confront the prospect of dying earlier than they expected and under extraordinary circumstances. Now more than ever we need to find ways to talk about death, suggests Laura Davies, from the Faculty of English.

Support for bereaved children in schools is patchy and inadequate, and teachers feel they lack the skills to help, according to a report from the Faculty of Education.

Very old people are more likely to die comfortably if they die in a care home or at home, compared with dying in a hospital, suggests a new study from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge. Yet while the overwhelming majority of very old people reported symptoms at the end of life such as distress, pain and depression, the study found that these were not always treated effectively.

An ambitious began last week with a discussion of a remarkable documentary. Filmed in a pioneering hospice, ̽��ֱ��Time to Die addresses a subject that remains taboo for many. Joining the conversation are health professionals, medical students and members of the public, as well as those interested in film and ethics. ̽��ֱ��series continues on 9 November 2016.

Jane Fleming (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) discusses attitudes to death among the very old.

Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the very old. ̽��ֱ��research, from the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge and published today in the journal PLOS ONE, finds that this group is willing to discuss dying and their end-of-life care, but is seldom asked.

̽��ֱ��Fitzwilliam Museum is marking its bicentenary anniversary celebrations with an exhibition on its remarkable collection of Egyptian coffins. 

Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (AM) v ̽��ֱ��DPP [2014] UKSC 38) focusing on the minority judgement of Baroness Hale.

Dr Frederick Sanger, recognised by many as the “father of genomics”, died in 2013 at the age of 95. ̽��ֱ��founding member of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, and the person after whom the Sanger Institute is named, he was known as an extremely modest and self-effacing man whose innumerable scientific contributions had an extraordinary impact on molecular biology.