The funeral service contains the words "We blossom like a flower then wither away." Has Mankind lost its Moral Compass? Where are we Going? 'Whither Away' was written partly as a response to Richard Dawkins' best-seller 'The God Delusion' and partly as an attempt to make sense of religiously inspired atrocities. It poses the question: "What is the place of religion in a 21st Century scientific world?" Rick Appleton is a retired Family doctor living with his wife Gill in Nantwich, Cheshire. They have four children and nine grandchildren.