Conversations at The Wheeler Centre: Children on Death

St Martins and the Wheeler Centre proudly presents this ground-breaking FREE public conversation in collaboration with the Wheeler Centre. A group of children aged 6 to 16 from St Martins Youth Arts Centre join our host to lend their views on one of the biggest taboos of all.

The Belgiuan government recently passed a unanimous motion allowing children the right to die in situations of terminal illness. This ruling brings into question the conceptual understandings and maturity of young people. Do children understand the irreversibility, and universality of death? Should they be burdened with the choice?

The inevitability of death is something everyone has to face, not just our own but of those around us. As adults, we struggle to cope with the impact of grief and bereavement, but as children we are often shielded from death. The company ensemble at St Martins Youth Arts Centre will unravel some of the mysteries of death in a frank and at times hilarious conversation. This panel will boldly confront the mortal condition with fearlessness and curiosity offering a rare and poignant insight.