Who is a funeral for?
A dilemma and a solution
Following on from the Friend’s special edition on ‘Let’s Talk about Dying’ (19 March) and particularly the article on ‘Saying Goodbye with Style’, I am offering this personal experience. 
Last autumn my son died at the age of thirty-eight. For the previous three and a half years, he and all those important to him had known it was inevitable, so it was no surprise and, as many will recognise who have lived with terminal illness, in the end it was a release for him and a relief for us.
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