Dying to Know – bringing death to life
Julia Brown introduces an unusual new book about death
Witty. Reassuring. Cheerful. These are perhaps unexpected qualities to find in a book called Dying to Know – bringing death to life. But then it is an unusual book. Set out as a series of sixty ‘conversation starters’ or ‘thought buds’, accompanied by striking images, Dying to Know aims to help us to celebrate life more fully, by beginning to talk about the experience we find it hardest to come to terms with. Death. Published in the UK this week, the book is the brainchild of Jane Tewson, the ‘social innovator’ who co-founded Comic Relief and Red Nose Day. Jane emigrated from the UK ten years ago to set up Pilotlight Australia (www.pilotlight.org.au), a small charity that exists, as she puts it, to ‘spark ideas and projects to ignite positive social change’.
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