Teacher who died of cancer has coffin covered with art by students after writing heartbreaking farewell letter
58-year-old Sue East from Bath, Somerset, was a well-loved teacher and she died on December 19 after a short battle with cancer
A primary school teacher who wrote an emotional farewell letter to her students from her death bed has been buried in a coffin that was covered in their drawings. 58-year-old Sue East from Bath, Somerset, was a well-loved teacher and she died on December 19 after a short battle with cancer.
It was on that day that she wrote a gut-wrenching letter to her students in which she told them that she was "going to die soon". She also thanked them for their "joy and friendship". In the letter, East quoted a passage from C. S. Lewis' famous 1952 novel, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where she compared death to sailing over the horizon in a coracle, which is a small, round boat.