Dying Matters Week 2025
Dying Matters Week connects people across Aotearoa to start conversations in a safe space, learn from local experts and seek support to plan for later life and end-of-life and to navigate grief and loss.
Alongside talks about planning and care were Death Cafés, art and poetry, theatre and film, workshops, online panels, funeral and death-care demonstrations, grief activities and community conversations.
What happened in your location in 2025?
Click on the posters below to see programme details in each region of New Zealand.
2025 Dying Matters Week Photos
2025 Media Coverage
Click on the links below to read/listen to media coverage of Dying Matters Week. Please direct all media enquiries to [email protected].
- Facing one of the inevitable parts of life: death
- Dying Matters Week 2025 Podcast
- Community Event Discusses Death, Dying & Grief
- Doulas Helping People Treat Death as a Journey
- RNZ with Kathryn Ryan on the Nine to Noon show
- End of Life Doula Alliance Aotearoa Interview with TVNZ
- Dying Matters Week – Pacific Days Interview
Videos and recordings from Dying Matters Week 2025
View copies of visual presentations and video recordings made at events and workshops during Dying Matters Week 2025 or visit the Go With Grace YouTube channel…
“Go With Grace has been a partner of North Haven Hospice’s for almost 3 years now, and a beneficial contributor to our services and mission of expanding knowledge, conversations and compassionate communities around death and dying.
North Haven Hospice has been a key participant in the inaugural event of Dying Matters Week NZ, and it has been wonderful to see Katy Mandeno and her team extend this into wider New Zealand regions and communities. We have engaged with the event with key staff members speaking and presenting at both events
held in the last 2 years and will continue to support the development of the event as part of the “Shaping Your Legacy” event to be held in September 2026.
We remain an ongoing partner of Go With Grace and their endeavours to educate and support our communities in a space where the conversations are hard, people feel lost and often don’t know where to turn.”
Dr Warrick Jones, Medical Director, North Haven Hospice
Dying Matters Week Updates
Stay up to date with the latest events, resources, and discussions via our Dying Matters Week email newsletter.
