Are we afraid to die?

Jill Allum considers our reaction to death

Gravestones of the Qigham family at Quaker Meeting House, Coanwood | Photo: Akuppa / flickr CC

We sat around a candle, eight of us, in a Friend’s home. I had been asked to run a ‘dying workshop’ by another Meeting. A special couple in my Meeting had just lost their very disabled fifty-year-old daughter. Real words of comfort were needed. We let our thoughts go into the candle flame and then each drew the pictures or wrote the words that had come to us. It was a very special sharing.

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