29-01-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com

How to die well | Johannes Klabbers

Lack of faith is no impediment to a decent death – or to helping another through theirs, says Johannes KlabbersIn the secular age you don’t need special authorisation to console a dying person. Just learning what it means to be there for someone is enough. “Death literacy” is officially a thing. People go to death cafés; books about death are in demand… and around 55 million people worldwide do it every year. But how do you actually do dying well? And who ca
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