Plans to install a 'Before I Die' wall on Ipswich Waterfront have been approved.
The bucket-list style project seeks to encourage the community to write out their ambitions for what they want to do before they die on an eight metre art wall.
The proposals have been approved following a successful funding application submitted by St Elizabeth Hospice to the Central Area Committee.
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The wall will be located opposite Dance East on St Peter's Dock for the month of May, coinciding with Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 8 - 14) - an annual national initiative which encourages communities, individuals and organisations to come together and open up the conversation around death, dying and bereavement.
Hugh McElhinney, volunteer community manager at St Elizabeth Hospice, said: "This will be a unique way for St Elizabeth Hospice to mark Dying Matters Awareness Week 2023, but also one which we hope will encourage the community to open up conversations with friends and loved ones concerning death and how we can all support one another with death, loss and grief."
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