What is a good death now?

"The woman who lives next door to me is dying. Her bedroom shares a wall with mine and I can hear her: sometimes she watches TV, sometimes she talks to herself, sometimes she is in pain. Her dying presence has necessarily become part of my life.

"She is having what most people consider to be a good death: in her own home, surrounded by family, something not everybody is lucky enough to experience." Joanna Walsh

Joanna is spending two weeks at Wellcome Collection, where you can watch her make a drawing based on her work with patients at Sobell House Hospice.

See photographs of Joanna and the work in progress on Flickr.

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  The art of dying

  "It's a long story..."

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  Deaths remembered

  Memories of the deaths of friends, family and loved ones contributed anonymously by visitors to Ars Moriendi and to the website.

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  Sketches from Sobell

  Preparatory sketches for 'Ars Moriendi' made at the Sobell Hospice in Oxford.