[Magdalen] RIP Sir Terry Pratchett

[Robert Rea]

On Friday, March 13, 2015 01:07:08 PM ME Michaud wrote:
> I sat with my mother as she was dying and I was ASTONISHED at
> the similarities with labor and childbirth. Many years later I had a
> friend who was a doula, and she said the same. Her father's dying
> was more like childbirth than she ever would have imagined.
> 
> I remember thinking it was as if my mother were giving birth to
> her new self.

A friend in my parish died as she was being bathed. We thought of Baptism, but 
the analogy to birth seems appropriate.

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