Perhaps we should take our cue from the Queen, the epitome of gracious composure. As dignified in death as in life. But we can’t all have a state funeral, white horses and the rest.
For some, death is messy and painful. It’s one of sparingly few things left in life that we don’t control at the click of a button. The great equaliser. As inevitable as taxes. It illuminates our mortality; not only that we must die, but that we are not lords of our own destiny.