They are not, in the main, ‘saints’. They still have grumpy moments and periods of intense sadness, fear or anger about their fate. But they are examples of what we can all become: beacons of compassion, living in the moment, looking backwards with gratitude and forgiveness, and focused on the simple things that really matter. It’s like watching a rose unfurl to perfection. At the moment of its greatest glory it is on the brink of the curling of its petals, the explosion of its colours, and the casting of its magnificence into the wind.
