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.
What’s happening in your location?
2026 events are being added daily. Click on the images below to see what’s happening in your region.
For more information on hosting events in your region, please check out our Event Toolkit or email [email protected]
2026 latest events added
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Event Posters
You can download and print event posters and other marketing material from our event toolkit.
Get Involved in Dying Matters Week
Get involved in Dying Matters Week, running events, volunteering, giving talks or sponsoring programmes. Stay up to date with the latest events, resources, and discussions via our monthly newsletter.
Go with Grace is a treasure box of stories, resources and knowledge to help people prepare for death, care for the dying and live with grief and loss. Offering comfort, honesty and practical advice, Go with Grace shows real leadership in opening up kōrero that matter and stands as a trusted, compassionate guide when people need it most.
Hospice New Zealand
In the media
Click on the links below to listen to podcasts, watch tv shows and read articles about Dying Matters Week.
- Dying Matters Week is all about facing one of the inevitable parts of life: death
- Dying Matters Week 2025 Podcast
- Community Event Discusses Death, Dying & Grief
- Dying Matters Week events in Gisborne
- 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
- Tangihanga: Stage show opens Dying Matters Week 2025
Videos and recordings from Dying Matters Week
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…
2025 Dying Matters Week Photo Gallery
“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