‘It’s a quite extraordinary feeling to be surrounded by so much love,’ she said two days before she died. ‘I count my blessings.’ She was right to do this, of course. I doubt if any of us will enjoy – if that’s the word to use – such a perfect death when our own time comes. To die in her own home, after a long life, quite quickly, looked after by her own children, surrounded by her family, entirely free of pain.
