Reflection: Words
In the second of four short articles, Alison Leonard reflects on five years of involvement in the Quaker Concern Around Dying and Death, and writes personally about relationships and practicalities in old age
If we live into extreme old age and have no particular disease, just the general deterioration of a long-used body, we can listen to advice on planning ‘a good death’ and wonder just when to put it into practice. Start at the biblical point of ‘three score years and ten’ and we might live to see a further generation. Leave it till we reach a century and, still, we may survive till a child now just born begins school.
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