Opinion: We can help to ease the pain of death

By John Knight, Third Sector, 4 June 2008

I am feeling maudlin. And I am not the only lugubrious scribe at the moment. I recently happened to chance upon the sometimes entertaining 'Bubb's blog' on the Acevo website. My fellow optimist was waxing lyrical about his burial plot purchase in a "green lush valley".

Dying is something we will all experience. At the start of Joan Didion's play The Year of Magical Thinking, an account of the author's emotions following the sudden death of her husband, Vanessa Redgrave, who plays her, promises the audience that they will go through the same journey. Maybe not...