When my time is up

Anna Wimberley writes about approaching death and the benefits of a ‘felt cocoon’

'How nice to imagine that we can take these love tokens with us when we die!' | Photo: Theen Moy / flickr CC.

None of us is going to escape death. Last year the Bamford Quaker Community, which is situated in the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, ran a workshop entitled: ‘When my time is up.’ The aim of the workshop was to help people talk about the end of their lives and how they might want to die. Part of the workshop was teasing out the things that mattered most, things people wanted to do before they died.

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