When its time to say goodbye Saying goodbye to anyone is hard. Saying goodbye to loved ones when they pass away is heart-breaking, an then having to deal with the aftermath of sorting out their things once the intial funeral organisation has been done can mean grieving all over again. Parting with their things is sometimes almost as hard as saying goodbye to them in the first place, except usually at this time onec the fuss has died down you’re left to deal with it yourself

"I don’t think I can afford to hire you…." They were the first words (after hello) that Claire* said to me on our initial consultation. She’d phoned to book in for a half day slot at £99 as paperwork was taking over her life. It was at the point where she had given up opening post. She was in debt. She panicked every time the postman came. She had paperwork all over the place – on the dining room table, in drawers, at the side of her bed, stuffed into a kitchen cupboard an