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About Mywishes
Our mission is to ensure that everyone documents and shares their wishes. Sharing important information now can help reduce the emotional burden, confusion and costs associated with illness, death, dying and remembering in the future.
Our free to use planning software, ongoing campaigning and education is having a positive impact across the UK. Some of our stories are shared in the ‘Recent News’ area below
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Recent news
Professor Green speaks about the importance of photographs and bereavement
Professor Green recently spoke to the BBC about power of photographs and their significance after someone we care about dies. Professor Green then explores how society and our relationship with…
Russell Brand addresses grief
Russell Brand has has addressed many social and economical aspects of life and society over the years in both his standup comedy shows, his Youtube channel and podcasts. It is great that Russell has…
What is a celebrant?
We recently spoke about end of life planning and MyWishes at the annual Celebrants Convention. Whilst there we caught up with Wendy Coulton a fully qualified Civil Funeral Celebrant. In the video…
How technology has changed my life as a ‘End of Life’ Doctor
Dr Ollie Minton Hello my name is Ollie Minton… I love my phone / my iPad and they are essential parts of life. It is not the clichéd work life balance more like a detachable cyborg…
Remembering David Bowie on the streets of Brixton, London
The night David Bowie died On the night of David Bowie's death me and a few friends decided to head into Brixton in London where David Bowie was born. A celebration of his life was organised that day…
We will be visiting Albany and New York in October and November
We will be speaking at this years Digital Legacy Conference and would love to meet those working within the tech, end of life and hospice sector. Please get in touch if you are going to be in…
MyWishes, a community approach to end of life planning
We have been working hard with professionals and the general public to launch MyWishes in an attempt to change and better the ways in which we approach death and ensure that our wishes are adhered…
We spoke on Jon Richardson’s TV show about planning for death digitally…
We were asked to talk about MyWishes on John Richardson's Ultimate Worrier. It is great that mainstream TV stations are not only taking interest in our service and what we provide but also end of…
New Book Contribution: A matter of life and death
A Matter of Life and Death ‘I rejoice that death has become less of a taboo subject in our conversations. In this timely book you will discover precious wisdom and heartfelt insights from people of…
New CNN documentary on digital death and digital legacy
We were recently visited by a camera crew from CNN in the USA for a documentary. It explores different options and approaches to death in today's digital world. Some of these are more based on…