Most societies nowadays seem to have a kind of taboo around death. Whilst we celebrate birth the leaving of it tends to be set behind layers of obscuration… an entire industry has developed which is dedicated to hiding the gruesome realities of death from the majority of people.
Morticians, funeral directors, priests, grave diggers, florists and masons… Death used to be closer and more personal. How did that change?
Death is not a topic that is avoided within Druidry. Rather, it is a part of nature that we seek to understand, that we might live happily beside it, facing it with dignity and honour. On these pages, we shall look at how we might do that ethically – both in terms of our philosophy and theology, and as human beings in a physical world.