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13 Aug 2025

Reclaiming Death: A Call for Conversations, Compassion, Community, and Change

Dying Matters Week Aotearoa returns from September 1–7, inviting all New Zealanders to join open conversations about death, dying, caring and grieving. Dying Matters Week is an annual, nationwide event, with activities planned across New Zealand aiming to support community conversations about death and dying, and remind us all that death is normal, natural, and inevitable.

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