We seldom know how the good life goes.

We don't even know how to die.

Scottish writer John Burnside gives it a lot of thought.

And finds clues in very old, remote places.

But what about the afterlife?

People, motionless in beds, surrounded by devices with which they laboriously and worriedly try to keep other people in infection-proof smock armor alive.

People dying.

With these images our days are coming to an end.