Lottie Tomlinson shares her heartbreak after mum and sister’s deaths and urges people to do one thing

Lottie Tomlinson is encouraging people to have better conversations with their loved ones about their wishes after death (Picture: Kieran Cleeves/PA Media Assignments)

Lottie Tomlinson has opened up about how two close family bereavements shattered her life and led to her campaigning for change.

The 27-year-old mum lost her own mother Johannah Deakin to leukaemia in 2016 and younger sister Fizz to an accidental overdose three years later.

Her own experience has led to her becoming an ambassador for palliative care and bereavement charity Sue Ryder, to encourage people to speak more openly about death.

Mum-of-two Lottie said: ‘I know from my own experience just how overwhelming grief can be.

‘My mum got ill unexpectedly, and she never wanted to approach the subject that she wasn’...