Death remains the one common experience all of us will face, but we rarely talk about it, plan insufficiently for it and allow it constantly to take us by surprise. As new research underlines how unprepared the British are for dying, an Anglican vicar explains how a group she helped to found has brought a local community together to discuss and think about this difficult subject
It’s Wednesday morning in the Chilterns village of Great Missenden and 20 people are drinking coffee together and laughing. You wouldn’t suspect that they are giggling about their own demise, but this is a group which has tackled one of the taboos of our time – talking about dying. The group, called Finity, aims to encourage people to consider and talk about all kinds of issues concerning the en
21 May 2015, The Tablet
Preparing for the dying of the light
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