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A friend said to me yesterday that he was gloing to two funerals this week. Coincidently in the past few days I have been involved in two such events, and have been asked by an old school friend, who who has an inoperable illness, to officiate at his funeral when the time comes. It is of course a generational thing – for older people there are more funerals than weddings to go to. And yet although some of us share terminal news like this, death itself is often the hidden truth that however young or old we are, is rarely