Mindfulness
I have a friend who is dying. Sorry to be so blunt but there's no other way to put it. She has terminal lung cancer and it appears to be spreading at an inordinately fast rate. We've been doing a weekly Whatsapp chat every week since lockdown began and I can already see the difference in her, she's now struggling to stay on for half an hour, our first chats lasted well over an hour. It is the hardest thing to watch, although I fully appreciate it is much much harder for her to know how it will end. A year and a half ago, one of my best friends died very suddenly. She was sitting in her chair with a cup of tea waiting for her daughter to bring her granddaughter to be babysat. Her husband left her to go to out and when her daughter arrived shortly after, she found her mum dead in the chair, the tea untouched. Two very different scenarios, both horrendous but I have to say, I think my friend had the better deal dying suddenly lik...