Exhibition of photographs (by Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta) of people before and after dying, at the Wellcome Collection in London, and online at guardian/society:
Death is a test of one’s maturity. Everyone has got to get through it on their own. I want very much to die. I want to become part of that vast extraordinary light. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait. I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back. Edelgard Clavey, 67
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