This episode deals with the immediacy of death, bodies and grief. I talk to Anna Bunten who is an advanced nurse practitioner who started training in 1997. From there she started working initially in a hospital and then later in an out of hours service where she provided a mixed roll of both nursing (district nursing at night including palliative care) and out of hours emergency care. She is now settled in a GP practice in Peterborough and has been a nurse partner there ever since. 

Due to the nature of Anna's work death is discussed a fair amount and the immediacy of after care. The conversation does meander a fair amount and we discuss personal loss, what grief looks like in a professional setting, long term grief, grief ceremonies, specifically Scottish grief tending and the necessity of grief being witnessed which was a very powerful part of the conversation. Finally we talked about being remembered, ourselves and our loved ones, how we’d like to be remembered but also how other live on through us.

There’s a few clumsy questions in here, obvious ones that I’m a little bit embarrassed about to tell you the truth but Anna’s answers were too good to leave out so I had to leave my embarrassing self right in there...

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