The great democratiser in life is death. No one, no matter how rich or powerful they are, no matter where they live or what job they do, can escape it. Yet for all its universality, we each deal with loss in strikingly individual ways. Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody is best known for co-writing songs like the hits Run and Chasing Cars, but in his debut non-fiction book The Forest is the Path, he tackles the subject of death in an unsparingly honest, vulnerable and creative way.