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The Death of Nadja – my Wife
Posted in Advantages of Age5 mn read Nadja was my second wife, and I her second husband. We were very happy together for 30 years when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer in India.
death of a loved one
14 mn read
Letting go of 40 years’ worth of family memories
Posted in Advantages of Age14 mn read Over the past couple of years, I have had to share – with my partner, sister and other family members – the grim and heart-breaking task of clearing our parents’ house, selling it and saying goodbye to well over 40 years of memories.
5 mn read
My Business – planning your end of life!
Posted in Death5 mn read My worst fear had just happened – my husband was dead, we’d had no kids, and I was left alone in the world. Aged 54, too old to be a young widow, too young to be an old one.
7 mn read
The Death Dinner – Opening up the Last Taboo
Posted in Death7 mn read I am 64, and entering into the terrain of my own drawing-closer mortality – yet talking about death is still forbidden. Sex is so much more out in the open. Death is the last taboo
8 mn read
The Ghosts in the Attic
Posted in Advantages of Age8 mn read So we are selling up and have to clear all your stuff from the attic. The boys brought it down from the attic to what used to be Kitty’s room.
3 mn read
Can I Embrace Death?
Posted in Death3 mn read I’ve just turned 49. I can hardly believe it. I feel young, often mischievous (close friends call me that) and alert in spirit, and yet, 49 is not considered young in body anymore…
