Carolyn Craig is appointed a junior fellow at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, UK. She is an organ scholar at Westminster Abbey and a member of The Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2019.
I am lying in a coffin, the lid gently placed on top. A warm light filters through the woven fibres, as a meditation chant reverberates around the room.
I watched my own dad die when I was 25, and it made me realise how awkward people get around the subject. I wanted to see if living funerals - both those for the terminally ill and those who are not - are opening up how we talk about death.