The arts are predominantly used in palliative care as a therapeutic tool with both Music and Art Therapy being integral to many palliative care service offerings. The arts more broadly are not used so regularly. Visual, creative, performance and expressive arts have the capacity to bring people together, to create a safe environment, facilitate conversations and unlock people's creative selves. Using the arts in this way enables trust relationships to be established quickly, improve death literacy, encourage end of life conversations as well as enabling people to engage in creative pursuits that can improve their sense of wellbeing and connection to their communities. This presentation will explore a range of arts based approaches I have undertaken over many years including visual arts projects used with oncology staff, craft projects used with clinic patients, performance projects used as a health promotion tool for the wider community and a story telling project used to encourage participants to share their experiences of death and grief with an audience. The aim of the presentation is to demonstrate that you don't need to be a professional artist or therapist to utilise arts in health based approaches, it only takes willingness, partnership with artists and community arts organisations and creative thinking. The beneficiaries of these approaches are patients, carers, staff and the wider community as demystifying death and grief empowers people to have conversations, make plans and take control of their lived experiences.