Introducing Endings Matter
Endings Matter is a new thread, a place to gather reflections, stories and practices on how we navigate endings, collectively and culturally.
Why this section? Because how we end things shapes what comes after. In hospice care, we learn that endings done with care, dignity, and attention leave a different imprint than those avoided, denied, or rushed through. The same is true of the systems, identities, and stories now reaching their limits.
This space will hold:
Essays on hospicing modernity and the wisdom of endings.
Practices for letting go in the collective (institutions, ways of life).
Reflections on grief, memory, and closure, drawing on thinkers like Atul Gawande, Stephen Jenkinson, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, and Francis Weller.
Invitations to notice what becomes possible when we stop clinging to what no longer serves.
Endings are not failures, they are thresholds. They compost the past, fertilise the soil, and open the space for something else to emerge.
Until a dedicated site is ready, this Substack section will be a temporary hearth for the Endings Matter work. You’re invited to read, reflect, and share in the practice of ending well.
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