Lucy said “It was at that time I realised we are only entitled to 3 days off work and one of those days has to be the funeral. You are entitled to sick leave or you can take holiday entitlement from your employer but you shouldn’t have to use sick or holiday leave, what if you became sick.”

She goes on to say, “My vision for the future is that you will have the ability to take up to 12 weeks off paid leave Using the bereavement leave entitlement and be able to return to your job. As a nation we don’t talk about death and we should be able to as for me it is a great healing process and this change I feel would help us as a nation as does maternity leave and paternity leave now.”

She hopes if enough people sign the petition it will help her to, “…bring this to our governments attention and hopefully in the future change will happen…”

If you would like to sign the petition it can be found here: Change the Bereavement Leave from 3 days to up to 12 weeks