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DeathRights' mission is to provide advocacy and support so that the personal wishes, medical needs and legal rights of people facing death, dying and bereavement in prison can be met.
Our project will support dying people and their families in times of acute vulnerability and need.
Our priorities are the needs of people:
- dying in prison
- experiencing bereavement in prison
People in these situations often lack the support available to the rest of us, whether from family contact, palliative care, religious practice, or bereavement support, due to chronic shortages of resources.
When you are sent to prison, the punishment is supposed to be loss of liberty, not an inhumane death, or deprivation of end-of-life rituals when losing a loved one. Nor should any person or their family and community be subjected to a more brutal bereavement.
We want to build public and institutional support for more humane policies and practices around death and dying in prison, as well as to empower the people directly affected to engage in those practices as "Death Navigators."
In this way we will hold up a mirror to people in prison that enables them to recognise and reconnect with their own humanity.
Our project will support dying people and their families in times of acute vulnerability and need.
Our priorities are the needs of people:
- dying in prison
- experiencing bereavement in prison
People in these situations often lack the support available to the rest of us, whether from family contact, palliative care, religious practice, or bereavement support, due to chronic shortages of resources.
When you are sent to prison, the punishment is supposed to be loss of liberty, not an inhumane death, or deprivation of end-of-life rituals when losing a loved one. Nor should any person or their family and community be subjected to a more brutal bereavement.
We want to build public and institutional support for more humane policies and practices around death and dying in prison, as well as to empower the people directly affected to engage in those practices as "Death Navigators."
In this way we will hold up a mirror to people in prison that enables them to recognise and reconnect with their own humanity.
Contact
mail@deathrights.org
Website
In Brief
Does the organisation involve volunteers with experience of the criminal justice system?
No
Primary Field of Work
Advice & advocacy
Organisation type
Community Interest Company
Regions
Remote
Fields of Work
Advice & advocacy | Attitudes, thinking and behaviour | Counselling | Faith | Family support | Holistic services | Lived experience involvement | Lobbying & campaigning | Media | Mental health | Mentoring & befriending | Peer support | Personal development | Physical health | Prison reform | Prisons | Probation reform | Race | Relationships | Research & academia | Sentence management | Suicide and self-harm | Through the gate | Women-only provision
People you work with
Faith groups | Families | Men | Older people | People convicted of serious offences | People with disabilities | Racially minoritised people | Women | Young people